guno
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- Mar 18, 2014
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This Just reported yesterday, I also heard about it on NPR
The mortality rate for white men and women ages 45-54 with less than a college education increased markedly between 1999 and 2013, most likely because of problems with legal and illegal drugs, alcohol and suicide, the researchers concluded. Before then, death rates for that group dropped steadily, and at a faster pace.
A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate
The mortality rate for white men and women ages 45-54 with less than a college education increased markedly between 1999 and 2013, most likely because of problems with legal and illegal drugs, alcohol and suicide, the researchers concluded. Before then, death rates for that group dropped steadily, and at a faster pace.
A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate