Trends in life expectancy: did the gap between the healthy and the ill widen or close?

Table 1 Average pace of changes in the remaining life expectancy at age 65 among the general population and among individuals with a history of disease, 1998–2017

	Pace of RLE change (years/decade)
	Women	Men
General population	0.76	1.48
Myocardial infarction	2.48	2.86
Ischemic stroke	1.53	2.38
Hemorrhagic stroke	1.21	1.58
Hip fracture	− 0.29	0.67
Colon cancer^a	1.67	1.89
Lung cancer^a	0.75	0.54
Breast cancer^a	2.13	–

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