Modelling disease impact: lifespan reduction is greatest for young adults in an exogenous damage model of disease

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العنوان: Modelling disease impact: lifespan reduction is greatest for young adults in an exogenous damage model of disease
المؤلفون: Tobin, Rebecca, Pridham, Glen, Rutenberg, Andrew D.
المصدر: Sci. Rep. 13 (2023) 1-10
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
Quantitative Biology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution, Physics - Biological Physics
الوصف: We model the effects of disease and other exogenous damage during human aging. Even when the exogenous damage is repaired at the end of acute disease, propagated secondary damage remains. We consider both short-term mortality effects due to (acute) exogenous damage and long-term mortality effects due to propagated damage within the context of a generic network model (GNM) of individual aging that simulates a U.S. population. Across a wide range of disease durations and severities we find that while excess short-term mortality is highest for the oldest individuals, the long-term years of life lost are highest for the youngest individuals. These appear to be universal effects of human disease. We support this conclusion with a phenomenological model coupling damage and mortality. Our results are consistent with previous lifetime mortality studies of atom bomb survivors and post-recovery health studies of COVID-19. We suggest that short-term health impact studies could complement lifetime mortality studies to better characterize the lifetime impacts of disease on both individuals and populations.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43005-0
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06808
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2305.06808
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-43005-0