Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the drop in life expectancy in the United States and excess deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Irma Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate), Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate), and Neil Mehta (GGD alumni) were featured in a recent issue of Today's Research on Aging published by the Population Reference Bureau.
Irma T. Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate), Samuel H. Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate), and Andrew Stokes (GGD Alumnus) co-authored a new article published in PLOS Medicine entitled, "COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in the United States: A County-level Analysis." Read more about it in the Boston University Press Release.
Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Yana Vierboom (GGD alumni) wrote an Op-ed published in The Guardian entitled, "Why Do Americans Die Earlier than Europeans?"
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Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Yana Vierboom (GGD alumnus) were featured in Penn Today for their publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article dives into their research on the increase of excess mortality in the United States. Preston and Vierboom were also featured in The Guardian.
Irma Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) were featured in Penn Today about the new National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine report on High Mortality.
Irma T. Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate), Samuel H. Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Andrew Stokes (GGD alumni) were featured in a Penn Today article about calculating excess mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic. Their research, available as a preprint on medRxiv, examines excess deaths at the county level, allowing the researchers to look at how patterns of excess deaths vary by demographic and structural factors.
A research paper by Samuel H. Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and co-authors released today in PLOS One show that U.S. Drug Deaths Might Be Twice as High as Thought. The article has been cited in U.S. News & World Reports, Penn News Press Release, VICE, Physician's First Watch and Health Medicine Network article.
Samuel H. Preston (PSC/PARC) was quoted in a New York Times article about the intersections of race and increased mortality in the 21st century.
Irma T. Elo and Samuel H. Preston's research on life expectancy and non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. featured in Penn Today.
PhillyVoice recently featured Sam Preston's work on obesity, mortality rates, and life expectancy.
Samuel Preston spoke with Penn Today about mortality rates, obesity, and life expectancy.
A study by Samuel Preston and Irma Elo uses nationally representative data to estimate the mortality hazards associated with diabetes, combining those hazards with the prevalence of diabetes to estimate the fraction of deaths attributable to diabetes and its effect on life expectancy. Evaluating the impact of diabetes on age-specific mortality may be salient in identifying the effect of rising obesity levels on US mortality and its contribution to racial/ethnic mortality disparities. Read more about this project here.
Research led by professor Samuel Preston and Penn alum Andrew Stokes of the School of Arts and Sciences measured the impact of rising obesity on mortality rates in the United States, based on the maximum body mass index of individuals between 1988 and 2011. They found that the obesity epidemic is to blame for preventing the U.S. from fully benefitting from factors that could lower mortality rates, such as medical advancements and reductions in smoking. Read article here.
Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes are quoted in new Washington Post and Forbes articles about mortality and Diabetes.
Sam Preston is quoted in new U.S. Health News article about the diabetes death toll.
Sam Preston is quoted in new Washington Post article about declining Life Expectancy in the U.S.
Samuel Preston and Andrew Stokes' new study about Diabetes is discussed in Le Monde article.
Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes are quoted in Penn Current article and Penn News Today about a study focused on the deadliness of diabetes.
Sam Preston is quoted in New York Times article about new study focusing on rates of Dementia in the U.S.
Sam Preston is quoted in a New York Times article on life expectancy of Black Americans.
Samuel H. Preston is quoted in the New York Times article: "White Americans Are Dying Younger as Drug and Alcohol Abuse Rises."
Samuel H. Preston and Irma T. Elo's PDR paper "Anatomy of a Municipal Triumph: New York City's Upsurge in Life Expectancy," was recently discussed in The New York Times article: "Poor New Yorkers Tend to Live Longer Than Other Poor Americans."
Samuel H. Preston's research with recent graduate Andrew Stokes on the health consequences of body weight was highlighted in a Wall Street Journal debate "Are There Health Benefits to Being Overweight?"
Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes' obesity research is highlighted in News Medical Life Sciences & Medicine.
Samuel H. Preston, David Cutler, and Ronald Lee comment on rising mortality among middle-aged white Americans in the NY Times and Slate.
A new study by Samuel Preston and Andrew Stokes just published in Obesity challenges the "obesity paradox" which in previous studies suggested that being overweight is beneficial for people with cardiovascular disease. Read more in the Penn press release and PennCurrent.
Sam Preston is quoted in a Barron's article about innaccuracies in Social Security projections.
Kevin G. Volpp received the National Institutes of Health 2015 Matilda White Riley Award and gives named lecture at NIH's 20th Anniversary Celebration of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, read more in this announcement from Penn Medicine. Last year's winner of this prestigious award was Samuel H. Preston.
New PSC Working Paper: Preston, Samuel, Ezra Fishman, and Andrew Stokes. 2014. "Lifetime Probability of Developing Diabetes in the United States." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 14-4.
Samuel H. Preston and Irma T. Elo's recent study forthcoming in the journal Population and Development Review on New York City's mortality decline is discussed in the New York Times.
Samuel Preston has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Congratulations!
Sam Preston's research was cited in an article in the Boston Globe's "Brainiac" segment.
Sam Preston was interviewed on HuffPost Live about Americans dying younger than people in other developed countries.
Samuel H. Preston comments on fire arms and homicide in a New York Times article on health and longevity.
Samuel Preston and Ph.D. candidate Andrew Stokes are featured on Philly.com for their demography research in relation to Americans’ health.
Andrew Stokes is quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer in an article about obesity in the U.S. and his AJPH paper with Samuel H. Preston is also mentioned.
Samuel H. Preston comments on life expectancy of American women in the Los Angeles Times.
Samuel H. Preston suggests that unhealthy lifestyles are more damaging than lack of health-care access in the New Scientist.
Samuel H. Preston and Jessica Ho's NBER working paper No. 15213 and a recent book chapter by Preston, Glei and Wilmoth on smoking have been cited in an article in the journal Significance entitled, "Fundamental health care system reform for the United States"
Hans-Peter Kohler and Sam Preston are both cited in "The Only Child: Debunking the Myths" in TIME on July 8, 2010.
The Preston and Ho working paper, "The US Health Care System and Lagging Life Expectancy: A Case Study." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 09-01, has been discussed on the Becker-Posner blog as well as the Greg Mankiw's blog in addition to being cited in a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 361(2):202-206) on "Prostate-Cancer Screening," by Preston.
Now available: Preston, Samuel H. and Jessica Ho. 2009. "The US Health Care System and Lagging Life Expectancy: A Case Study." PSC Working Paper Series PSC 09-01.