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Date Posted: 17:13:06 04/18/02 Thu
Author: Cynthia Boaz
Subject: Re: Life Expectancy
In reply to: April 's message, "Life Expectancy" on 13:15:00 04/18/02 Thu

Thanks for this information April.

That is shocking that increase in mortality due to injuries/accidents accounts for 33% of the decrease in life expectancy. I'm sure homocide is accounted for in that statistic-- I wonder if it could be driving it that much. Wow.

-cb

>Life expectancy in Russia has decreased since the fall
>of the Soviet Union, but it was still fairly low.
>Since it lends to the social conditions in Russia, I
>found an article about life expectancy in the JAMA.
>Here is the link (the abstract of the article):
>http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v279n10/abs/jlf71019.ht
>ml
>
>This paragraph was one of the most substantial, so I
>thought everyone might like to see some of the
>statistics:
>Results. Age-adjusted mortality in Russia rose by
>almost 33% between 1990 and 1994. During that period,
>life expectancy for Russian men and women declined
>dramatically from 63.8 and 74.4 years to 57.7 and 71.2
>years, respectively, while in the United States, life
>expectancy increased for both men and women from 71.8
>and 78.8 years to 72.4 and 79.0 years, respectively.
>More than 75% of the decline in life expectancy was
>due to increased mortality rates for ages 25 to 64
>years. Overall, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease
>and stroke) and injuries accounted for 65% of the
>decline in life expectancy while infectious diseases,
>including pneumonia and influenza, accounted for 5.8%,
>chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis for 2.4%, other
>alcohol-related causes for 9.6%, and cancer for 0.7%.
>Increases in cardiovascular mortality accounted for
>41.6% of the decline in life expectancy for women and
>33.4% for men, while increases in mortality from
>injuries (eg, falls, occupational injuries, motor
>vehicle crashes, suicides, and homicides) accounted
>for 32.8% of the decline in life expectancy for men
>and 21.8% for women.

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