Swedish nationwide birth cohort: parental age at death predicts midlife all-cause mortality and hospitalization

2024

Key finding

Swedish cohort: each additional decade of parental survival associated with ~22% lower offspring mortality

Evidence & causal status

Moderate

Association / inherited + shared environment

Caveats & limitations

Reliability / bias notes: Parental death data quality; cohort-era and environment effects

This describes a population-level association from published research. It is not a prediction about any one individual, and association is not the same as causation unless stated otherwise above.