Home Health Doctors identify the cause of a mysterious ascent in deaths in young Americans

Doctors identify the cause of a mysterious ascent in deaths in young Americans

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The previous graph shows the increase in mortality rates in Americans under 44 as of 2019. Deaths have been largely driven by opioid overdose

Americans are dying in adulthood in ‘devastating’ numbers, according to a new report.

The excess of death: deaths above the normally expected number, among the people between the ages of 25 and 44 years have almost tripled since 1999.

And although the COVID and the opioid epidemic have been partially guilty, researchers have found that young adults are dying early from other less obvious causes.

For example, homicides, alcohol -related deaths and deaths from car accidents are running much higher levels.

Deaths due to ‘natural causes’ as chronic diseases also represented up to one in six deaths in Americans 25-45.

In general, in 2023, the excess mortality rate of young adults was 70 percent higher than the baseline.

This means that a total of 172,785 people between the ages of 25 and 44 died that year and more than 71,000 of them should not have based on expert estimates.

Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, author of the main study and associated professor at the University of Minnesota, said: ‘What we did not expect is how many different causes of death have really grown for these first adults.

The previous graph shows the increase in mortality rates in Americans under 44 as of 2019. Deaths have been largely driven by opioid overdose

‘They are deaths from drugs and alcohol, but they are also car collisions, they are circulatory and metabolic diseases, causes that are very different from each other.

“That tells us that this is not a simple problem to solve, but something broader.”

The increase in overdose deaths may be due to an increase in fentanyl, which has killed 320,000 Americans in the last 10 years.

Federal data show that some 3,100 Americans died of fentanyl overdose in 2014. Only five years later, in 2019, the lives of 36,000 people were affirmed.

The latest CDC data shows that deaths reached their maximum point in June 2023 in 77,693.

Deaths due to natural causes may be due to recent increases in chronic diseases such as heart disease.

Last month, the American Heart Association warned that almost 1 million deaths in 2022 were caused by heart disease, rather than combined cancer and dementia. This made him the main cause of death of the United States.

Meanwhile, an increase in car -related deaths has been blamed in increasing stress between drivers and drivers that are increasingly distracted by their phones.

A recent study found that deaths from car accidents increased by 16 percent from 2020 to 2021 alone.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Boston University analyzed 3.3 million deaths in Americans from 25 to 44 years from 1999 to 2023 included in the Wonder database of the CDC.

After staying stable for more than a decade, the number of deaths in excess among Americans from 25 to 45 years began to climb in 2011.

By 2019, the rate increased by one third compared to 2011.

The Covid pandemia caused excess deaths among this age group to reach its maximum point in 2021, when three times more people about the expected number died.

Although deaths finally began to decrease in 2023, approximately 70 percent higher than the researchers anticipated depending on the average before Covid.

The previous graph shows increases in deaths from cause from 2011 to 2023

The previous graph shows increases in deaths from cause from 2011 to 2023

Jacob Wade, 26, a former Marine, had been a devoted family man from his wife, Great Britain Tomlin, and the children, Walker and Blakely, when he accidentally overdimited a drug cocktail with fentanyl in 2023

Jacob Wade, 26, a former Marine, had been a devoted family man from his wife, Great Britain Tomlin, and the children, Walker and Blakely, when he accidentally overdimited a drug cocktail with fentanyl in 2023

Evan White (in the photo here) was diagnosed with colon cancer at 24. He died four years later, only weeks before his wedding

Evan White (in the photo here) was diagnosed with colon cancer at 24. He died four years later, only weeks before his wedding

The findings, published in Open Jama NetworkThey are preliminary, and the complete results have not yet been published.

The researchers found in 2023, opioid overdose such as fentanyl were responsible for the greatest amount of deaths, representing one in three or 48,884.

Natural causes: deaths from chronic diseases such as heart disease or diabetes, represented 16 percent of early deaths (16,265), while transport -related deaths represented 14 percent (15,551).

Alcohol and homicide caused approximately eight percent of the early deaths (9,763 and 10,257, respectively).

Other common causes include cancer, suicide, digestive and respiratory problems.

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