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. 2021 Nov 16;118(46):e2115544118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2115544118.

Reply to Permanyer et al.: The uncertainty surrounding healthy life expectancy indicators

Francisco Villavicencio  1   2   3 , Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher  2 , James W Vaupel  4
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Reply to Permanyer et al.: The uncertainty surrounding healthy life expectancy indicators

Francisco Villavicencio et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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BPLE and BPHLE with 95% UIs (vertical lines), 1990–2019. Source: Global Burden of Disease (5).
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