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> In [1], you can see that the last cause, cardiovascular, explains more of the difference than drugs, violence, and accidents combined. This is for overall li
by pedrosorio 4y ago
> In [1], you can see that the last cause, cardiovascular, explains more of the difference than drugs, violence, and accidents combined.
This is for overall life expectancy, not 5 to 40 death rates though. I would expect cardio-metabolic disease is a significant driver of "early" deaths (say before 65) in those over 40 in the US compared to other developed countries.
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- sgc 4y agoThe point is, despite the twitter/article author's (perhaps sensationalist) claims, the numbers don't support the extreme emphasis on the 5-40 age group. The difference in life expectancy, which is what we are talking about, mainly (~2/3) comes from health and healthcare issues, and is in fact spread out throughout Americans' lives, from about 0-79 years of age.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoYou’d expect correctly; there is non-trivial number of people dying from those diseases between 40 and 65 in the USA, and the number is only increasing. In the USA and Canada, the probability of death from these diseases is roughly 1 in 3. As I recall, other developed countries are kind of catching up. Malignant neoplasms and cardiovascular disease are becoming the typical causes of death in the majority of cases in most countries, generally followed by accidental injuries and suicide. The good news is that if you don’t kill yourself, you exercise, and you eat well, you can likely avoid or significantly delay these events. Accidental injury though, that’s hard to control for.