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Years of Potential Life Lost

Estimation of the average time a person lost due to premature death.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2020
Highly Cited
2020
Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost From Excessive Alcohol Use — United States, 2011–2015
Excessive alcohol use is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States (1) and costs associated with it, such as… 
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Years of potential life lost for brain and CNS tumors relative to other cancers in adults in the United States, 2010.
BACKGROUND Years of potential life lost (YPLL) complement incidence and survival rates by measuring how much a patient's life is… 
2012
2012
Years of potential life lost for six major enteric pathogens, Germany, 2004–2008
SUMMARY In industrialized countries, acute infectious enteric diseases are usually mild, but they can also cause death. They do… 
2010
2010
Racial disparities in smoking-attributable mortality and years of potential life lost --- Missouri, 2003-2007.
An estimated 443,000 deaths in the United States occur each year as a result of cigarette smoking and exposure to secondhand… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
State-specific smoking-attributable mortality and years of potential life lost--United States, 2000-2004.
Smoking can cause lung and other cancers, coronary heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory disease, and other diseases. In… 
2002
2002
Years of potential life lost and valued years of potential life lost in assessing premature mortality in Slovenia.
AIM To determine the leading causes of death that contribute most to premature mortality in Slovenia; to classify premature… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Potential gains in life expectancy or years of potential life lost: impact of competing risks of death.
BACKGROUND Measuring the impact of competing risks of death on society is important for setting public health policy and… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Years of potential life lost after hip fracture among postmenopausal women.
From January 1987 and onwards all cases of hip fracture in Arhus County, Denmark, were registered in a prospective multicenter… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Years of potential life lost (YPLL)--what does it measure?
1988
1988
Years of potential life lost (YPLL) before age 65 in Italy.
The Italian death rates and years of potential life lost (YPLL) for all causes and for 12 selected aggregations of causes are… 
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