Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23313217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Case (0000-0002-0202-0879, Princeton University), Angus Deaton (0000-0002-9222-8023, Princeton University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 49 |
| Pages | 15078-15083 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-8424 • E-ISSN: 1091-6490 |
| Publisher | National Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1073/pnas.1518393112 |
| PMID | 26575631 |
| OpenAlex | W2129283428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 652 |
| References cited | 26 |
Significance Midlife increases in suicides and drug poisonings have been previously noted. However, that these upward trends were persistent and large enough to drive up all-cause midlife mortality has, to our knowledge, been overlooked. If the white mortality rate for ages 45−54 had held at their 1998 value, 96,000 deaths would have been avoided from 1999–2013, 7,000 in 2013 alone. If it had continued to decline at its previous (1979‒1998) rate, half a million deaths would have been avoided in the period 1999‒2013, comparable to lives lost in the US AIDS epidemic through mid-2015. Concurrent declines in self-reported health, mental health, and ability to work, increased reports of pain, and deteriorating measures of liver function all point to increasing midlife distress.
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