For First Time in Decades, US People Are Dying Younger

[loyola llothta]

The overall downward trend in the U.S. stands in sharp contrast to the situation worldwide, where global life expectancy increased by five years from 2000 to 2015.


Life expectancy in the United States dropped last year for the first time since the peak of the HIV/AIDS crisis more than 20 years ago, as deaths rose from nearly every major cause, federal data showed Thursday.

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The total U.S. population’s life expectancy in 2015 was 78.8 years, a decrease of 0.1 from 2014, according to the report by the National Center for Health Statistics. Across the nation, 86,212 more people died in 2015 than the previous year.

Deaths from eight of the top 10 causes increased, including spikes in accidental deaths among children and deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly.

The report does not delve into the reasons for the across-the-board decline in life expectancy, but experts point to economic hardship, drug addiction and the increasing burden of dementia on an aging population as potential factors.


The last time life expectancy dropped in the U.S. was in 1993, a year when AIDS-related deaths reached their peak, compounded by a bad year for influenza-related deaths.

For U.S. men, life expectancy dropped 0.2 years from 76.5 years in 2014 to 76.3 years in 2015. For U.S. women, life expectancy decreased from 0.1 to 81.2 years in 2015.

The overall downward trend in the U.S. stands in sharp contrast to the situation worldwide, where global life expectancy increased by five years from 2000 to 2015, according to the World Health Organization.

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Federal data from 2014 showed a slight downturn in life expectancy for white people, which experts say could be due to rising drug abuse — particularly an epidemic of prescription painkillers — and poverty.

In 2015, deaths from Alzheimer’s disease rose 15.7 percent while deaths from “unintentional injuries increased by a 6.7 percent increase.”

“The dramatic upswing in the use of opiates and narcotic use across our country is potentially a big factor in driving a phenomenon like accidental injury.”

Across the U.S. adult population, increases were seen in deaths from heart disease (0.9 percent), chronic lower respiratory diseases (2.7 percent), stroke (3.0 percent), diabetes (1.9 percent), kidney disease (1.5 percent) and suicide (2.3 percent).


The rate of cancer-related deaths decreased by 1.7 percent, and influenza and pneumonia deaths were unchanged.

Earlier this week, a study issued in the American Journal of Public Health found that poverty cuts an average of almost 10 years off U.S. men’s lives and seven off women’s.

Men in the poorest areas died on average nearly 10 years earlier, at the age of 69, than men in the wealthiest ones, and women in the poorest areas died on average seven years sooner, at 76 years old.

For First Time in Decades, US People Are Dying Younger

 

[loyola llothta]

@hex can you relocated this thread in TLR

 

[MikelArteta]

Stress

 

[Jax]

@hex can you relocated this thread in TLR

I can doe

 

[AlwaysLurkin]

86k more people dying,that's like a whole city dying per year

 

[King Poetic]

Stress, no jobs, no access to real health care or even healthy foods

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Stress, no jobs, no access to real health care or even healthy foods

What about exercise and active lifestyles. I'm just saying tho.

No one's coming to save anyone. If you can't concern yourself about your health enough to prioritize it then I dont know. There is no better life than a healthy one. Obesity has become acceptable and epidemic

 

[Grand Conde]

Your country is fat as fukk. As is lots of Western Europe. People aren't supposed to consume what they consume.

 

[Standing on business]

Stress

Life is very real

 

[MIKE SPLEAN]

86k more people dying,that's like a whole city dying per year

 

[MIKE SPLEAN]

Wait so everywhere else life expectancy went up but we reversed

I gotta get out of here

 

[Bay Area]

New generation of druggies and the gym fad came and went overnight too.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

What about exercise and active lifestyles. I'm just saying tho.

No one's coming to save anyone. If you can't concern yourself about your health enough to prioritize it then I dont know. There is no better life than a healthy one. Obesity has become acceptable and epidemic

This point is very true..
However, most people are working longer days or multiple jobs just to make it. Pair that with most people don't have the education on what right foods to eat in their diets plus organic fruits and vegetables are not cheap. Then you have to look at the access to these certain stores that are "magically" not built in a particular set of neighborhoods.
Staying healthy is a job within itself.
Then you have to look at the healthcare system as a whole. Let's keep it a buck, a lot of people fear doctors because of the bedside manner, long lines, seeing loved ones go through certain diseases.
It's a ton of factors that go into people dying younger(mental health is also another factor)..
Yeah these could be seen as excuses/road blocks but everybody deals with the pressures of life in different ways

 

[director_of_bands]

87% of grocery store food is pure adulterated trash....

 

[Sauce Dab]

Damn accidental deaths for children went up and Alzheimer's went up too