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  2. Birthday effect - Wikipedia

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    After correcting for confounding factors such as seasonality in deaths, elective surgery, and people born on February 29, there was a significant increase in deaths in the week before the individual's birthday for men, and in the week after the birthday for women — in both cases, mortality did not peak on the birthday, but close to it. This ...

  3. Life table - Wikipedia

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    In actuarial science and demography, a life table (also called a mortality table or actuarial table) is a table which shows, for each age, the probability that a person of that age will die before their next birthday ("probability of death"). In other words, it represents the survivorship of people from a certain population. [1]

  4. List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy

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    Rank State/Territory Life Expectancy 2019 [9] Male Female 1. Hawaii 81.6 78.6 84.6 2. California 81.2 78.7 83.6 3. New York 81.2 78.6 83.5 5. Minnesota 80.6 78.4 82.8 6.

  5. Child mortality - Wikipedia

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    Share of children born alive that die before the age of 5 (2017) [1] Breakdown of child mortality by cause, OWID. Child mortality is the death of children under the age of five. [2] The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live ...

  6. Treadmill test can reportedly predict chance of death within ...

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    Patients between 0 and negative 100 had an 11 percent chance of dying in the next 10 years, while those in the negative 100 and below range had a 38 percent chance of death.

  7. Maternal mortality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Expansion of care past the 60-day period may prevent some pregnancy-related deaths, 11.7% of which occur between 42 days and 1 year. [67] Only 29 states had expanded this coverage period as of March 2023, with others proposing some sort of extension. [68] [69] As of September 2022, 12 states had not implemented any Medicaid expansions. [70]

  8. Colon cancer: Measuring ‘biological age’ may help predict who ...

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    While this idea might sound a bit abstract, past research has shown that aging faster than normal can increase the chances of serious health issues, like a higher risk of dying or developing cancers.

  9. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Most Greeks and Romans died young. About half of all children died before adolescence. Those who survived to the age of 30 had a reasonable chance of reaching 50 or 60. The truly elderly, however, were rare. Because so many died in childhood, life expectancy at birth was probably between 20 and 30 years. [28] Ancient Rome: 20–33 [29] [30] [31 ...