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15930369

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
22
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
Will life expectancy in the United States rise or fall in this century? The implications of either scenario are far reaching. We contend that the rise of childhood obesity in the United States in the past three decades has been so dramatic that it will soon lead to higher than expected death rates at middle ages and a possible decline in life expectancy by midcentury. The most detrimental health and longevity effects will not be seen for decades--a phenomenon that cannot be detected by current methods used to forecast life expectancy or estimate the number of deaths currently attributable to obesity. This scenario contrasts sharply with the views of mathematical demographers who generate forecasts by relying on the assumption that the U.S. pattern of longevity will follow that of other longer lived nations and on the extrapolation of historical trends in life expectancy into the future.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1539-6150
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
2005
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
pe15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Misdirection on the road to Shangri-La.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. sjayo@uic.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comment