Re: Good News about America's Top Killers

From: R. Weiser (weiser_at_acsh.org)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: 20 Jan 2005 14:07:41 -0800

Yes - obviously SOMETHING is going to be the leading cause of death.
The point with these stats, though, is that the death rates are for
those *age 85 and under.* So reducing these particular death rates from
cancer and heart disease would mean preventing earlier deaths (before
age 85) so that people are dying at an older age (of these causes, or
any others).

-Rivka Weiser

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