Life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen slightly, according to a new government report.
The life expectancy for a baby born in 2008 is 77.8 years, down from 2007′s all-time-high of 77.9 years.
Life expectancy for Americans generally has increased steadily since 1975, but the numbers dipped in 1993 and again in 2005.
The report’s lead author, Arialdi Minino, characterized the decline as tiny, and said it would take years of data to determine if it is the start of a downward trend, the Associated Press reports.
On a happier note, the infant mortality rate fell from 6.75 infant deaths per 1,000 live births to 6.59, a drop Minino called “pretty significant,” HealthDay reports. Still, the mortality rate for black infants remained about twice that of whites.
The government figures showed that the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the U.S. narrowed to 4.6 years. In 2008, the average lifespan edged down to 75.3 years for white men and to 80.3 for white women. For black women it remained unchanged at 76.8 years, while the average lifespan for black men hit a record high of 70.2 years.
For the first time in 50 years, chronic respiratory diseases like asthma and emphysema replaced stroke as the third-leading cause of death.
Nearly half of all deaths in the U.S. stemmed from heart disease and cancer, which remained the two leading killers.
Minino cautioned that the report was not designed to find the reasons for the mortality changes, and that the increase in deaths from chronic respiratory diseases could be related to revisions in the way some deaths are classified.
The report was released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The news is insufficient for comment. The background source, ho3ever, offers better information on the subject matter of declining life expectancy in the country, and in other countries as well.
The evidence in the ‘Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries’ Report, by National Cancer Council, of January 25, 2011, indicates that: (1) the life expectancy is falling in the U.S., (2) the observable fact of falling life expectancy is particularly pronounced among women, (3) the new phenomenon occurred in the last 25 years (during the period 1980-2005), and (4) no risk factors, disease, or any other reason has been determined for the evident, unexpected decline in life expectancy, especially in women.
There must be some better way of unconvincing explanation of the confounding smoking and obesity effects, pointed out as the main culprit factors for the slashed longevity of American (and other) women. Missing factors in the Report were the unspoken breast cancer epidemic and the condomization of Female Sexuality. Breast cancer is generally treated as a passing reference throughout the Report. Conspicuously, the unabated and excess epidemic disease of breast cancer is hardly mentioned. In the Chapter 8 of the Report, entitled Hormone Therapy (in women), the main point of considerations was given on Coronary heart disease and Stroke, and Lung cancer, rather than on Breast cancer. The damaging effects of HRT, which was pointed out, followed out the prior CDC announcement of cessation of condom promotion-distribution, in February 2002, imposed by the former President George W. Bush. (The temporary decline of the breast cancer incidence in the next couple years, which was attributed entirely to the elimination of HRT, was practically canceled out by the robustly reiterated condom-promotion campaigns.) Lung cancer was sited uncritically, because of neglected information that metastases of breast cancer to lungs account for more than 21 to 25 percent.
The condomization of women’s sexuality has been defined as a root cause of the current breast cancer epidemic along with the widespread, accompanying gynecological diseases, tumors, lesions of the reproductive system and other phenomena in American women. The transmission of HIV/AIDS virus has not been found in the Report as a risk factor for the continuing, 25-year decline of women’s life expectancy. The consequences, however, of the general condomization of women’s and girls’ sexuality in the mainstream population, in a misconceived attempt to stem the emergent AIDS epidemic, has changed the American society, perhaps the most. The never before experienced change in the society has been achieved by a profound corruption of the intimate (sexual) ecosystem of the people, due to elimination of the biologically protective, primordial physiological impact of mutual woman-man relations, that is, by inducing technical effects of absolute male sterility of marital and inter-gender micro-environment . Namely, the evidence of a significant association between condom use and breast cancer development in the population at large, rather than transmission of HIV/AIDS virus in any high-risk group, or hormone therapy for that matter, may better explain the decline of longevity of American women. It is almost certain that the condom promotion / distribution in the U.S. has been more persistent and more indiscriminate than in the other high-income, comparable countries.
In fact, the remarkable, long-term decline of life expectancy in American women may become a unique proof and testimony for both the medical, and perhaps political, deadly misconception of the indiscriminate, mass condomization, associated with the breast cancer epidemic, and the wrong-for-long misleading belief of condom use as a “safe” hi-tech device for fertility-control and family-planning purposes. [The data of parallel decline (on a lesser scale) of male longevity, might indicate that the deadly, carcinogenic effects of condomization on women, afflicted by breast-ovarian-gynecological cancers, might exerts some reciprocal, unknown social or any other biological effect on men as well.] The hope remains that the elimination of the defined risk factor of condomized control of women’s sexuality (its ‘eradication’ to levels of rare, sporadic cases) of the breast cancer epidemic will reflect on the rising women’s life expectancy, on restoration of its rise in a same rapid manner as it’s been declining for long period after the point of departure at the beginning of 1980s.
The background of the research of the epidemic breast cancer etiology and the potential of primary, non-chemical and natural, prevention of the disease (effectively suppressed information during the same time period 1980-2005) is presented in the following recent editions:
♦ Reproductive Health of Women: An Attempt to Define Breast Cancer Prevention. Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2010; Jun. 15, 3(2): 169-179. Web:
http://www.mjms.ukim.edu.mk/Online/MJMS_2010_3_2/MJMS.1857-5773.2010-0104v.pdf
♦ Breast cancer risk assessment to barrier contraception exposure. A New Approach. Contributions Soc. Biol. Med. Sci. MASA, 2009; XXX, 1, 217-233. (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Web: http://e20.manu.edu.mk/prilozi/16ag.pdf
Arne N. Gjorgov, M.D., Ph.D. (UNC-SPH, Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC)
Author of “Barrier Contraception and Breast Cancer,” 1980: x+164