'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy - NPR
- Also: Maternal mortality in the U.S. reached a high in 2021.
- Also, a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association
found rising mortality rates among U.S. children and adolescents. - "American children are less likely to live to age 5 than children in other high-income countries," the authors write on the second page. It goes on: "Even Americans with healthy behaviors,
- for example, those who are not obese or do not smoke, appear to have higher disease rates than their peers in other countries."
- ""If you add up the excess deaths that have occurred in the United States because of this unfolding problem, it dwarfs what happened during COVID-19,..."
- However, "the United States has higher survival after age 75 than do peer countries,..."
Reminder: in the US Big Pharma just has to show that a new drug is better than a placebo.
In many other countries a new drug must be more cost-effective than the existing drug.
See also Vitamin D Life
- Healthspan is more important than Lifespan – JAMA Oct 2018
- Sunbathing (vitamin D) increases lifespan in Sweden by about 1 year – March 2016
- Increase life expectancy by 2 years if double vitamin D levels – Grant July 2011
- Vitamin D predicts good health and long life in seniors, review of 20 cohort studies – Oct 2019
- Longevity in Vitamin D Life - many studies
- Longevity expert (David Sinclair) supplements includes Vitamin D, Vitamin K, and Resveratrol – Sept 2019
Wikipedia Life Expectancy 2020
| Japan | 84.6 | |
| Iceland | 83.1 | |
| UK | 80.9 | |
| US | 77.3 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 76.6 | $1bn/year funding to increase it |
| World | 73.3 |