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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Hematol. 2008 Dec;83(12):896–900. doi: 10.1002/ajh.21305

TABLE III.

Life Expectancy in Gaucher Disease Type 1 Patients and the US Reference Population

Population Deaths Person-years Average life expectancy at birth (years) Difference from U.S. population
US Reference population 77.1
    Male 74.3
    Female 79.9
Gaucher Disease type 1 102 13,509 68.2 –8.9
Spleen status
    Partial/total splenectomy 49 4,195 63.9 –13.2
    Non-splenectomized 53 9,305 72.0 –5.1
Gender
    Male 52 6,081 66.9 –7.4
    Female 50 7,428 70.0 –9.9