Liver disease: My GP used to tut-tut that I was at risk of Fatty Liver Disease, but thanks to GLP-1, I'm no longer at risk. But Fatty Liver Disease doesn't show up in the codes? Should younger people get their blood tested for this?
Also: Stats on mortality causes for people in their 40s was timely, as a woman in my family, age 47, recently died of a heart attack. Total shock. Your chart has it listed as the #2 cause of death. I've read articles about the bad old days when women with chest pains were told by the doc to take a Valium. Now the word needs to go out about (1) getting tested for heart disease, and (2) calling an ambulance when chest pains occur because the EMTs have oxygen, etc, at hand. [As in, do NOT drive to the ER, bad idea!]
I'll have to remember to dig out causes of death for 2020 vs other years. I'm stunned that ANY natural cause of death besides COVID went up in 2020. After all, if a person died of any kind of natural cause but also tested positive for COVID (often with the PCR cycles set rather high), it would be counted as a COVID death. The hospitals got an extra payment that way.
For now, I'm finishing up a substack on the Secret Service.
I think you'll find a lot of these people, similar to Michele Trachtenberg, were found dead at home.
There might have been overcounting of COVID deaths for the elderly (more likely to be in the hospital or nursing homes to begin with), but for those under age 65, and liver-related deaths were more common at those ages, they are more likely to be found dead at home.
Wow! That's a very fast increase! I'll watch for your follow up. Will you do another about measles deaths? In my lifetime I had not heard of deaths from measles- we were all vaccinated as children and then revaccinated inches 80s or 90s when college campuses had measles outbreaks. How long has it been since measles was a top cause of infant (childhood?) mortality? Today's news about the death in TX has me wondering.
Liver disease: My GP used to tut-tut that I was at risk of Fatty Liver Disease, but thanks to GLP-1, I'm no longer at risk. But Fatty Liver Disease doesn't show up in the codes? Should younger people get their blood tested for this?
Also: Stats on mortality causes for people in their 40s was timely, as a woman in my family, age 47, recently died of a heart attack. Total shock. Your chart has it listed as the #2 cause of death. I've read articles about the bad old days when women with chest pains were told by the doc to take a Valium. Now the word needs to go out about (1) getting tested for heart disease, and (2) calling an ambulance when chest pains occur because the EMTs have oxygen, etc, at hand. [As in, do NOT drive to the ER, bad idea!]
non-alcoholic fatty liver -- K76.0: https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/K00-K95/K70-K77/K76-/K76.0
That has only increased (both crude and age-adjusted):
https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D76/D426F082
https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D176/D426F083
This is a long-term increase -- doesn't seem to be a pandemic-related disruption.
I'll have to remember to dig out causes of death for 2020 vs other years. I'm stunned that ANY natural cause of death besides COVID went up in 2020. After all, if a person died of any kind of natural cause but also tested positive for COVID (often with the PCR cycles set rather high), it would be counted as a COVID death. The hospitals got an extra payment that way.
For now, I'm finishing up a substack on the Secret Service.
I think you'll find a lot of these people, similar to Michele Trachtenberg, were found dead at home.
There might have been overcounting of COVID deaths for the elderly (more likely to be in the hospital or nursing homes to begin with), but for those under age 65, and liver-related deaths were more common at those ages, they are more likely to be found dead at home.
Wow! That's a very fast increase! I'll watch for your follow up. Will you do another about measles deaths? In my lifetime I had not heard of deaths from measles- we were all vaccinated as children and then revaccinated inches 80s or 90s when college campuses had measles outbreaks. How long has it been since measles was a top cause of infant (childhood?) mortality? Today's news about the death in TX has me wondering.
I'm going to have to reach back pretty far to get to when measles was a big killer. It looks like 1934 was the last big outbreak:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles_vaccine#/media/File:Measles_cases_graph.svg
https://time.com/3692358/measles-vaccine-history/