Smoking expands expected lifetime with musculoskeletal disease.
By indirect estimation of mortality from smoking and life table methods we estimated expected lifetime without musculoskeletal diseases among never smokers, ex-smokers, and smokers. We found that although life expectancy of a heavy smoker is 7 years shorter than that of a never smoker, heavy smokers can expect to live more than 2 years longer with musculoskeletal diseases than never smokers.
National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark. hbh@niph.dk
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Brønnum-Hansen
Knud
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Juel
D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*