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I take it you missed / didn't read the response immediately above yours where I cited data on malnutrition related deaths in the US? • Mostafa, N., Sayed, A.,

by pmags 1y ago

I take it you missed / didn't read the response immediately above yours where I cited data on malnutrition related deaths in the US? • Mostafa, N., Sayed, A., Rashad, O. et al. Malnutrition-related mortality trends in older adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020. BMC Med 21, 421 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03143-8 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03143-8

marcusverus 1y ago
The article about elderly people who struggle to absorb nutrition? > Of these deaths, 34.3% took place inside medical facilities, 30.2% inside nursing homes/long-term care facilities, and 25.6% inside the descendant’s home. Is America is so broke that we can't feed people in hospitals and nursing homes? Obviously not. These are people whose bodies are shutting down due to told age, not people who are being neglected by society. In an attempt to show that people are starving due to poverty, you've instead shown that we're expending many, many times the cost of feeding them in an attempt to keep them alive. No doubt you're incapable of admitting that this is directly contradictory to the spirit of your thesis.
- pmags 1y ago
  At this point I can't help but conclude you're trolling, or the post linked here applies -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693402 But for the record here's the breakdown of malnutrition related mortality (ICD codes E40-E46) by 5 year age blocks as reported by the CDC for 2023. First field is age range, 2nd field is total number of deaths attributed to ICD codes related to malnutrition: 25-29 years, 17 30-34 years, 22 35-39 years, 40 40-44 years, 71 45-49 years, 119 50-54 years, 197 55-59 years, 323 60-64 years, 651 65-69 years, 1112 70-74 years, 1722 75-79 years, 2507 80-84 years, 3321 85-89 years, 4147 90-94 years, 4362 95-99 years, 2821 100+ years, 824 Total 22284 Anyone who wishes to repeat the query themselves or to look at other demographic aspects can do so at https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html ICD classifications aren't perfect but they are standardized. Here's the CDCs description of where this data comes from: The Underlying Cause of Death database contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties. Data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. Each death certificate identifies a single underlying cause of death and demographic data....

by pmags 1y ago

marcusverus 1y ago

The article about elderly people who struggle to absorb nutrition? > Of these deaths, 34.3% took place inside medical facilities, 30.2% inside nursing homes/long-term care facilities, and 25.6% inside the descendant’s home. Is America is so broke that we can't feed people in hospitals and nursing homes? Obviously not. These are people whose bodies are shutting down due to told age, not people who are being neglected by society. In an attempt to show that people are starving due to poverty, you've instead shown that we're expending many, many times the cost of feeding them in an attempt to keep them alive. No doubt you're incapable of admitting that this is directly contradictory to the spirit of your thesis.

pmags 1y ago
At this point I can't help but conclude you're trolling, or the post linked here applies -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693402 But for the record here's the breakdown of malnutrition related mortality (ICD codes E40-E46) by 5 year age blocks as reported by the CDC for 2023. First field is age range, 2nd field is total number of deaths attributed to ICD codes related to malnutrition: 25-29 years, 17 30-34 years, 22 35-39 years, 40 40-44 years, 71 45-49 years, 119 50-54 years, 197 55-59 years, 323 60-64 years, 651 65-69 years, 1112 70-74 years, 1722 75-79 years, 2507 80-84 years, 3321 85-89 years, 4147 90-94 years, 4362 95-99 years, 2821 100+ years, 824 Total 22284 Anyone who wishes to repeat the query themselves or to look at other demographic aspects can do so at https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html ICD classifications aren't perfect but they are standardized. Here's the CDCs description of where this data comes from: The Underlying Cause of Death database contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties. Data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. Each death certificate identifies a single underlying cause of death and demographic data....