Population Health Metrics

Table 4 Sensitivity of results to recovery

From: Future healthy life expectancy among older adults in the US: a forecast based on cohort smoking and obesity history

	Males			Females
	LE	LE^ND	LE^D	LE	LE^ND	LE^D
2010	0.05	0.11	−0.06	0.04	0.12	−0.08
2020	0.03	0.12	−0.09	0.02	0.1	−0.08
2030	0.1	0.14	−0.04	0.08	0.1	−0.02
2040	0.07	0.2	−0.13	0.08	0.14	−0.06

A positive value means that the alternative assumption resulted in a gain in life expectancy relative to the main model

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