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To the Editor: The concept of a compression of morbidity has implications for health care policies and costs and for the quality of people's lives. If morbidity can indeed be compressed into fewer years toward the end of a hypothetical "full life span," the amount of disability over the whole life span will be reduced.

The paper by Vita et al. (April 9 issue)¹ purports to provide evidence of such a compression. The authors state that "Not only do persons with better health habits survive longer, but in such persons, disability is postponed and compressed into fewer years at the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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