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We estimated overall long-term mortality in operated and unoperated EA patients, compared with the general population in Sweden.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods and results\u2003<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Using national medical registries, Swedish individuals born 1970\u201393 and diagnosed with EA between 1970 and 2011 were included. The hazard ratio for overall mortality for EA patients (n\u2009=\u2009216) vs. the matched comparison cohort (n\u2009=\u20092160) was 43.7 [95% confidence interval (CI): 24.8\u201382.5]. Mortality risk for EA patients (vs. controls) decreased as birth period progressed, with hazard ratios declining from 63.6 (95% CI: 26.3\u2013191.8) for those born in the 1970s to 34.4 (95% CI: 15.8\u201383.1) for those born in the 1980s and 20.2 (95% CI: 1.6\u2013632.5) for those born at the beginning of 1990s. The overall mortality hazard ratios for unoperated and operated patients with EA (vs. controls) were 30.2 (95% CI: 13.8\u201373.3) and 63.7 (95% CI: 28.1\u2013172.5), respectively. The risk of mortality among unoperated EA patients (vs. controls) declined with progressing birth period, with hazard ratios declining from 58.4 (95% CI: 15.1\u2013415.2) in the 1970s to 22.9 (95% CI: 8.0\u201375.3) in the 1980s and 10.2 (95% CI: 0.3\u2013395.9) in the 1990s.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion\u2003<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Overall all-cause mortality for patients with EA declined dramatically from 64 times to 20 times that of controls without EA, from the 1970s to the early 1990s. 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