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  • MaryW commented on the word mortality gap

    In 1932, Benjamin Malzberg, a New York epidemiologist, published a study showing that people with mental illness died, on average, 14 to 18 years earlier than otherwise similar people in the general population.1 This mortality gap persists today and may even have widened: a 2006 U.S. study suggested that it ranged from 13 to 30 years.2 Indeed, the gap persists worldwide,3 mostly owing to medical conditions, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, rather than “unnatural” causes, such as accidents and suicide.
    Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D., Closing the Mortality Gap, New Eng. J. Med., Oct. 20, 2016

    May 2, 2018