Tag Archives: life expectancy
Lowest US Life Expectancy Since 1996
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 12th October 2022Life expectancy dropped by 3 years for US men and 2.3 years for US women between 2019 and 2021, according to provisional life expectancy data from the National Center for Health Statistics. During this period, US life expectancy dropped to about 73 years for men and to about 79 years for women, the lowest levels since 1996….
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th March 2018An understanding of statistics is essential if a physician, or any interested party, is to understand the medical literature. Alas asking a typical doctor to evaluate statistical data is like giving a scalpel to an accountant and asking him to perform a coronary bypass. My last post on sodium intake gave an example of inadequate…
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Life Expectancy in the Elderly
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th November 2016Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other developed countries. This lower longevity has been often used to disparage medical care in this country as being inferior to that of other similarly advanced nations. Such an accusation is made acute by the high cost of American medical care – the highest in the world….
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Life Expectancy in the US and Social Awareness
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th February 2013Medical care in the United States is often compared unfavorably to that of other developed countries. It’s commonly stated that life expectancy in the US is much lower than in other countries and that this is due, at least in part, to poor medical care in the US. Life expectancy, of course, is affected by many things other things…
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Why Life Expectancy is Falling to Zero (or Less)
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th June 2010Originally published: Kurtzman NA: Lubbock Magazine (July):6-7, 1999. It is axiomatic that the Western World has been in inexorable decline since the circumcision of Pericles. But this decline had not included a diminution in life span, until this century. I know people are more often reaching a grand old age, but are they really living…
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Live Forever or Die in the Attempt
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 19th June 2009The world’s oldest man died. Long live the world’s oldest man. Have you noticed that being the world’s oldest man is a death sentence? You’re next to go. There’s no one in front of you. The article which notes this event mentions that Japan (the former world’s oldest man was Japanese) has the longest life…
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Life Expectancy, Medicare, and Preventable Death
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 21st February 2009I’ve recently read several articles dealing with the aging of our population. They all said that retired people have to confront the problem of a longer life expectancy. They have to husband their resources to last longer than did previous generations You’ve probably seen similar material. Everybody believes that old people are living a lot…
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