McKnight’s Senior Living April 16, 2024
(HealthDay News) — Working-age adults in the United States are dying at higher rates than their peers in high-income countries, according to a study published online March 21 in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD, from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and colleagues synthesized cause-specific mortality trends in midlife (25 to 64 years) for the United States; United Kingdom; 13 high-income countries in Western Europe, Australia, Canada and Japan; and seven Central and Eastern European countries (1990 to 2019).
The researchers found that US midlife mortality rates have worsened since 1990 for deaths related to drugs, alcohol, suicide, and metabolic, nervous system, respiratory and infectious/parasitic diseases. There was a decline in deaths due to...
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