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Aggregation and insurance-mortality estimation

Dow, William H.; González, Kristine A.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2003)

One goal of government health insurance programs is to improve health, yet little is known empirically about how important such government interventions can be in explaining health transitions. We analyze the child mortality ...
A cross-national comparison of 12 biomarkers finds no universal biomarkers of aging among individuals aged 60 and older

Rehkopf, David H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H. (Vienna Institute of Demography, 2016)

There is uncertainty about whether biological and anthropometric measures that are clinical risk factors for disease are universally associated with chronological age, or whether these correlations vary depending on the ...
The declining effect of sibling size on children’s education in Costa Rica

Li, Jing; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2014)

Costa Rica experienced a dramatic fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s. The same period saw substantial improvement in children’s educational attainment in Costa Rica. This correlation is consistent with household-level ...
Differences in the association of cardiovascular risk factors with education: A comparison of Costa Rica (CRELES) and the USA (NHANES)

Rehkopf, David H.; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis (Department of Epidemiology, University of California, 2009)

Despite different levels of economic development, Costa Rica and the USA have similar mortalities among adults. However, in the USA there are substantial differences in mortality by educational attainment, and in Costa ...
Differential DNA methylation and lymphocyte proportions in a Costa Rican high longevity region

McEwen, Lisa M.; Morin, Alexander M.; Rachel D., Edgar; Maclsaac, Julia L.; Jones, Meaghan J.; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Kobor, Michael S.; Rehkop, David H. (BMC, 2017)

The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica has one of the highest old-age life expectancies in the world, but the underlying biological mechanisms of this longevity are not well understood. As DNA methylation is hypothesized to ...
Education gains attributable to fertility decline : patterns by gender, period, and country in Latin America and Asia

Li, Jing; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis (Population Association of America, 2017)

We investigate the heterogeneity across countries and time in the relationship between mother’s fertility and children’s educational attainment—the quantity-quality (Q-Q) trade-off—by using census data from 17 countries ...
Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients

Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H. (National Academy of Sciences, 2016)

Mortality in the United States is 18% higher than in Costa Rica among adult men and 10% higher among middle-aged women, despite the several times higher income and health expenditures of the United States. This comparison ...
Insurance and other socioeconomic determinants of elderly longevity in a Costa Rican panel

Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H.; Laclé, Adriana (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Official figures show that life expectancy in Costa Rica is longer than in the United States (US), in spite of the fact that per capita health expenditure is only one-tenth that of the US. To check whether this is for real ...
Life-course BMI and biomarkes in persons aged 60 years or older : a comparison of the USA and Costa Rica

Rehkopf, David H.; Duong, Andrew; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Objective: There is a large literature linking current BMI to levels of cardiovascular risk biomarkers, but it is unknown whether measures of BMI earlier in the life course and maximum BMI are predictive of current levels ...
Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans

Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Modrek, Sepideh; Dow, William H. (ELSEVIER, 2012)

Despite the large number of studies, mostly in developed economies, there is limited consensus on the health effects of inequality. Recently a related literature has examined the relationship between relative deprivation ...
Longer leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula: a population-based study

Rehkopf, David H.; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Lin, Jue; Epel, Elissa; Blackburn, Elizabeth H. (ELSEVIER, 2013)

Studies in humans suggest that leukocyte telomere length may act as a marker of biological aging. We investigated whether individuals in the Nicoya region of Costa Rica, known for exceptional longevity, had longer telomere ...
The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: A high longevity island for elderly males

Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H.; Rehkopf, David H. (Vienna Institute of Demography, 2013)

Reliable data show that the Nicoyan region of Costa Rica is a hot spot of high longevity. A survival follow-up of 16,300 elderly Costa Ricans estimated a Nicoya death rate ratio (DRR) for males 1990–2011 of 0.80 (0.69–0.93 ...
Predicting mortality with biomarkers: a population-based prospective cohort study for elderly Costa Ricans

Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H. (BioMed Central, 2012)

Little is known about adult health and mortality relationships outside high-income nations, partly because few datasets have contained biomarker data in representative populations. Our objective is to determine the prognostic ...
Predicting survival from telomere length versus conventional predictors: a multinational population-based cohort study

Glei, Dana A.; Goldman, Noreen; Risques, Rosa Ana; Rehkopf, David H.; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Weinstein, Maxine (Public Library of Science, 2016)

Telomere length has generated substantial interest as a potential predictor of aging-related diseases and mortality. Some studies have reported significant associations, but few have tested its ability to discriminate ...
Pulse blood pressure and cardiovascular mortality in a population-based cohort of elderly Costa Ricans

Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Coto Iglesias, Fernando; Dow, William H. (Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2015)

We studied the relationships between blood pressure (BP), pulse pressure (PP) and cardiovascular (CV) death in older adults using data from 2346 participants enrolled in the Costa Rican CRELES study, mean age 76 years (s.d. ...
Seasonal variation of peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica: a population-based observational study

Rehkopf, David H.; Dow, William H.; Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Lin, Jue; Epel, Elissa; Blackburn, Elizabeth H. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

Peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is increasingly being used as a biomarker of aging, but its natural variation in human populations is not well understood. Several other biomarkers show seasonal variation, ...
Stressors over the life course and neuroendocrine system dysregulation in Costa Rica

Gersten, Omer; Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H. (Sage Publications, 2010)

The study analyzes the Costa Rican Study on Longevity and Healthy Aging (CRELES), a new, cross-sectional, and nationally representative survey of older Costa Rican men and women (aged between 60 and 109 years). The survey ...

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