Samuel H. Preston
289 McNeil
News
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PhillyVoice recently featured Sam Preston's work on obesity, mortality rates, and life expectancy.
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Samuel Preston spoke with Penn Today about mortality rates, obesity, and life expectancy.
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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.
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1968
Recent Publications
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"Are Major Behavioral and Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Mortality Additive or Multiplicative in Their Effects?" Social Science & Medicine 154 (2016): 93-99. AbstractExport:
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"How smoking affects the proportion of deaths attributable to obesity: assessing the role of relative risks and weight distributions." BMJ Open 6 (2016): e009232. PMCID: PMC4769428 AbstractExport:
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"Revealing the burden of obesity using weight histories." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (2016): 572-577. PMCID: PMC4725464 AbstractExport:
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