BIP! Finder - Years of life lost estimates cannot always be taken at face value: Response to “COVID-19 – exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost: a modelling study”

2020 • Years of life lost estimates cannot always be taken at face value: Response to “COVID-19 – exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost: a modelling study”

Authors: Marius Rubo; Peter Czuppon

Venue: Wellcome Open Research

Type: Publication

Abstract: In their recent analysis, Hanlon et al. set out to estimate the years of life lost (YLL) in people who have died with COVID-19 by following and expanding on the WHO standard approach. We welcome this research as an attempt to draw a more accurate picture of the mortality burden of this disease which has been involved in the deaths of more than 300,000 people worldwide as of May 2020. However, we argue that obtained YLL estimates (13 years for men and 11 years for women) are interpreted in a misleading way. Even with the presented efforts to con... (read more)

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Topics: Demography

DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16015.2

External links: Crossref OpenAIRE

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