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What Is Killing the White Middle-Aged American Male ?

2015-11-08

[PJ Media] Since 1998, people all over the world have been living healthier and living longer. But middle-aged, white non-Hispanics in the United States have been getting sicker and dying in greater numbers. The trend is being driven primarily by people with a high-school degree or less. That's the sobering takeaway from a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published this week. The study authors sum it up:

Between 1978 to 1998, the mortality rate for U.S. whites aged 45 to 54 fell by 2 percent per year on average, which matched the average rate of decline in the six countries shown, and the average over all other industrialized countries. After 1998, other rich countries' mortality rates continued to decline by 2 percent a year. In contrast, U.S. white non-Hispanic mortality rose by half a percent a year. No other rich country saw a similar turnaround.

That means "half a million people are dead who should not be dead," Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in economics and co-author of the paper, toldThe Washington Post. "About 40 times the Ebola stats. You're getting up there with HIV-AIDS."

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 Dementia also is increasing.

Singulair study.

Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-11-08 20:44

#6 Women are dying at a much younger age now also. Dementia also is increasing. Successful women also haven't time for home life so they are increasing using call services. They dictate where to eat. What day and time and where to bed down for time they are available. Disease free and I am certain many other demands.

Posted by: Dale 2015-11-08 19:55

#5 Nom nom she crab!

Posted by: Shipman 2015-11-08 18:23

#4 The trend is being driven primarily by people with a high-school degree or less.

Well then give everyone a high school degree..now let us break to converse on high speed rail, fried blue crab and pinot gregio. All in favor of adjournment say Aye.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-11-08 18:13

#3 reminds me of the old joke:
Why do husbands usually die before their wives?
Because they want to.

Posted by: Gleper and Tenille7214 2015-11-08 11:25

#2 Other White Middle-Aged American Males who chose "liberalism" as the path of optimal (least work, most reward) personal advancement?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-08 05:00

#1 Despair?

Perhaps something of a fainting goat gene?

Posted by: Skidmark 2015-11-08 02:59

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