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This 3.8-year gap, however, is the lowest it has been since 1975 at the latest, the greatest difference being 7.1 years in 1993. [72] In contrast, Asian American women live the longest of all ethnic and gender groups in the United States, with a life expectancy of 85.8 years. [73] The life expectancy of Hispanic Americans is 81.2 years. [72]
Hemoglobin has an oxygen binding capacity between 1.36 and 1.40 ml O 2 per gram hemoglobin, [23] which increases the total blood oxygen capacity seventyfold, [24] compared to if oxygen solely were carried by its solubility of 0.03 ml O 2 per liter blood per mm Hg partial pressure of oxygen (about 100 mm Hg in arteries). [24]
Therefore, the maximum lifespan of a person could be determined by calculating when the person's VO 2 max value drops below the basal metabolic rate necessary to sustain life, which is approximately 3 ml per kg per minute. [19] [page needed] On the basis of this hypothesis, athletes with a VO 2 max value between 50 and 60 at age 20 would be ...
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The prognosis is improved if clinical death is caused by hypothermia rather than occurring prior to it; in 1999, 29-year-old Swedish woman Anna Bågenholm spent 80 minutes trapped in ice and survived with a near full recovery from a 13.7 °C core body temperature. It is said in emergency medicine that "nobody is dead until they are warm and dead."
Worldwide, choking on a foreign object resulted in 162,000 deaths (2.5 per 100,000) in 2013, compared with 140,000 deaths (2.9 per 100,000) in 1990. [ 9 ] Signs and symptoms
A 2022 Outside article on heat stroke cites the highest known body temperature that a human was able to survive: “The highest body temperature measured was only 17 degrees above normal. Willie ...
Gaza’s long dependence on aid. Gaza has been among the world’s top recipients of aid per capita for years. Before the war, four in five people depended on international help and as many as 1. ...