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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2008 Oct 25;70(3):235–255. doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2008.09.004

Table 5.

Upper, middle and lower quartiles of life expectancy: U.S. men.

Quartilea Age
70 75 80 85 90 95
Top 25% 18.0 14.2 10.8 7.9 5.8 4.3
50th percentile 12.4   9.3   6.7 4.7 3.2 2.3
Lowest 25%   6.7   4.9   3.3 2.2 1.5 1.0

NCHS. Life tables of the United States, 1997. Adapted fromWalter LC and Covinsky KE. JAMA 2001;285(21):2750–6.

a

Top 25% represents very healthy men, 50th percentile represents those in average health, and the lowest 25% represents those in fair or poor health.