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life expectancy in the us is droppping

• ztjio 8y ago
  This is due to suicide and drug overdose, nothing that would be relevant to this discussion directly.
  • yayana 8y ago
    Suicide could account for a lower prevalence of dementia.
    • Nasrudith 8y ago
      If it is biased to those who are suffering already or would suffer from it. Theoretically if depression earlier in life protected against dementia (not likely at all but bear with me) it would actually raise the rates. I wonder what the actual correlation is however even keeping in mind spuriousness.
• ataturk 8y ago
  If you believe bs news, but the truth is that one particularly easy to avoid situation is behind that change in the "average." You can make statistics say whatever you please.