I love my floss.
Teeth: not tooth decay, but an infant who died at an age when they were teething. Most likely they had an infectious disease.
from my link
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Here is the full list of the translations. This made the rounds in the UK a few years back.
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We had a school project observing a litter of piglets at school and this happened to two or three of them. In fairness to the sow though, it was a pretty small stall.
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Cut of the stone - kidney stone surgery in the 1700s?!?!!!
Wild. I can’t imagine the discomfort
Piles seems like a bad way to go.
In this post, there’s a spreadsheet you can download & play with that has U.S. mortality data, 1999-2022 (finalized):
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A nice addition would be the overall average by sex.
And, how much of that is Boomer-related, so age-adjust, please.
-squint-
what are you talking about
that’s the age-adjusted rate
I did miss it. Sorry.
Still, how about some age-adjusted overall mortality rates by sex?
I cannot tell if this is important or not. (Gonna guess it is, but HOW different?)
So, why are more people dying now of MS than in the past?
Is that “of” or “with” (“complications of”)?
Is it that more people getting diagnosed and thus it is an major (or additional) cause of death?
Is it the nbew drugs that have been developed recently?
Why is the female rate so much higher than the male rate and why is the trend so much more?
Disclaimer: I know nothing of MS.
Or, I could read your blog…
People with multiple sclerosis may have double the risk of dying early compared to their healthy peers, a study in Neurology found.
I hope this is peer-reviewed by life actuaries.
More disturbing:
The exact cause is a mystery, but genetic susceptibility, infectious disease and environmental factors may trigger the disease, according to The National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
In the case of Teri Garr, she was diagnosed in 1999, so she outlived her diagnosis by about 25 years.
What is the life-span post-diagnosis? I mean, she lived for 15 years or so before she was diagnosed..
I didn’t share all the sources I found, but most MS patients live with the condition for decades after diagnosis. Most do not have symptoms constantly, but have intermittent symptoms for quite some time before it becomes more constant and degenerating.
They do have a shorter life expectancy (about 7 years) - but they tend to be diagnosed age 20-40 years old.
So, instead of dying in their mid-80s, like most women (as most patients are women), they die in their late 70s.
My sister has MS and has lived in a nursint home for 13 years. A lot of people lose bladder control and wind up with a catheter which is a constant infection risk, and since there is reduced feelimg they often can’t tell you when something feels off. She’s been hospitalized multiple times with septic shock, which itself increases your mortality afterward a lot. Had we had her at home I think we would have missed the first one and she’d have died 10 years ago.
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I don’t understand MS. My mother had a male cousin diagnosed around age 26, was very disabled and in a wheelchair within a few years, and died at age 53. She also has an aunt that was diagnosed with it around the same time and is still living mostly independantly approaching 80, and can still drive a bit.
Generally the earlier it strikes the more rapidly it progresses. It also matters where the lesions form as to what gets disrupted. There’s a random element to it.
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Like loner said it really depends on how the nerves are damaged.
One of the primary things MS does over time is strip out the myelin sheath surrounding the nerve cells, which then leads to problems with signals from those same nerve cells that go to other nerve cells.
The faster that happens (the myelin sheath gets stripped away) the worse the symptoms will become. Eventually, intermittent MS (not termimal) becomes progressive MS (terminal).
Something I read many years ago and have no idea if it’s still believed to be true…despite the fact that having a sibling diagnosed only raises your chance of getting diagnosed from. 001 to .01, HALF of siblings will show some lesions on an MRI.
Is every sibling given an mri?