• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    The researchers plan further analyses to investigate which causes of death are contributing to the differences.

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      10 days ago

      It seems like a lot of likely causes would be outside the scope of a medical study (for example, the age range is specifically working-age people, so it could be due to changes in occupations).

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      They also mention “people under 75”, so I assume they’re just using quarter-century ranges: 0–24; 25–49; 50–74; and 75–99.

      Actually, here’s a figure from the original study that uses 5-year bands, and you can see the anomaly covers those specific bands (with the under-25 bands looking more like random noise, which I assume is a statistical effect of the low number of total deaths in that range).

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      9 days ago

      Why strange? This is quite a common age range where you exclude the children and college kids and go to middle age. Or you just cut a 100 year life into 4 quarters.