Fig 3. The relationship between the number of potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to 31 causes of death in all 2015 US deaths and (a) the number of journal articles written about the cause of death and (b) the number of NIH funded R01 grants about the cause of death, stratified by black and white race.

Solid black line shows predicted relationships from linear spline regression models with nodes at tertiles and 95% confidence limits in blue. Dotted red reference line shows hypothetical relationship if every 1% increase in PYLL corresponded with a 1% increase in (a) publications and (b) funded grants. Top 15 race-specific contributors to PYLL are labeled in each panel.