LIFE EXPECTANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does life expectancy mean? 

• LIFE EXPECTANCY (noun)
  The noun LIFE EXPECTANCY has 1 sense:

1. an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

  Familiarity information: LIFE EXPECTANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIFE EXPECTANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("life expectancy" is a kind of...):

anticipation; expectancy (something expected (as on the basis of a norm))

 Context examples 

Patients usually have a normal life expectancy.

(Bonnevie-Ullrich Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, having 10 or more drinks per week was linked with one to two years shorter life expectancy.

(Drinking more than five pints a week could shorten your life, University of Cambridge)

A molecule designed at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo (ICB-USB) may increase the quality of life and life expectancy of people suffering from congestive heart failure.

(Molecule created in Brazil helps fight heart failure, Agência Brasil)

The disease follows a benign course and is compatible with a normal life expectancy, requiring occasionally partial excision or decompression for relief of pain or other symptoms.

(Peritoneal Multicystic Mesothelioma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In the next step of the study, the authors revealed similar trends, with participants whose overall diets were high and low in carbohydrates having a shorter life expectancy than those with moderate consumption.

(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The final result is an improvement of the phenotypic characteristics of the animal model with a very significant increase in life expectancy: while the untreated mutant mice reach a maximum of 7 months of life, the treated mutant mice are able to reach up to 25 months of life, approaching the survival curve characteristic of healthy mice.

(A new pharmacological therapy against a severe kind of deficiency in Coenzyme Q10, University of Granada)

Having 18 drinks or more per week was linked with four to five years shorter life expectancy.

(Drinking more than five pints a week could shorten your life, University of Cambridge)

The researchers estimated that from age 50, the average life expectancy was an additional 33 years for those with moderate carbohydrate intake — 4 years longer than those with very low carbohydrate consumption (29 years), and 1 year longer compared to those with high carbohydrate consumption (32 years).

(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

However, drinking above this limit was linked with lower life expectancy.

(Drinking more than five pints a week could shorten your life, University of Cambridge)

Results showed a U-shape association between overall carbohydrate intake and life expectancy, with low (less than 40% of calories from carbohydrates) and high (more than 70%) intake of carbohydrates associated with a higher risk of mortality compared with moderate intake (50-55% of calories).

(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)