The Health Risks of Bereavement: In the first years after losing a spouse in later life, you’re significantly more likely to die yourself, with the mortality rate being especially raised for men
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The Health Risks of Bereavement: In the first years after losing a spouse in later life, you’re significantly more likely to die yourself, with the mortality rate being especially raised for men
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282892
Article Title: Sex differences in health care expenditures and mortality after spousal bereavement: A register-based Danish cohort study
Author Countries: Denmark, UK, Singapore
Funding: AK, RGJW, and LHM are supported by The Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme for the project Harnessing the Power of Big Data to Address the Societal Challenge of Aging (NNF17OC0027812). SB acknowledges support from The Novo Nordisk Foundation via the Novo Nordisk Young Investigator Award (NNF20OC0059309), which also supports SM. LHM is employed at Statistics Denmark, the national Danish Statistics office, which organization holds the right to the registry data used in the study. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study.
Journal
PLoS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0282892
Article Title
Sex differences in health care expenditures and mortality after spousal bereavement: A register-based Danish cohort study
Article Publication Date
22-Mar-2023
COI Statement
The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: LHM is employed at Statistics Denmark, the national Danish Statistics office. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
