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A very high fraction of folks past age 75 have one or more of these diseases. Before concluding that they contribute, the next question should be, how many peo
by randcraw 7y ago
A very high fraction of folks past age 75 have one or more of these diseases.
Before concluding that they contribute, the next question should be, how many people in that population at that age have ZERO comorbid diseases? Likely, it's very few. So these comorbidities may actually have little causal role leading to mortality. We can't know from just this data.
Until we learn more, we can't conclude 1) that comorbidities were causal, or 2) WHICH comorbidity really matters.
- ithkuil 7y agothere is also the possibility that the comorbidities are indeed causal but we can't do anything about it since most elderly people would have them anyway, and hence besides being an interesting fact it's effectively indistinguishable from a pure statistical age correlation.