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How Come People Rarely Die of Dementia in Poor Countries?
PJMedia ^ | 07/31/2012 | THEODORE DALRYMPLE

Posted on 07/31/2012 10:28:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: QT3.14
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Easy answer:

They are not a Democrat, or a Republican that is subjected to listening to the likes of ∅™, Pelosi, Reid, Maxine Waters, Debbie Wasserman Schultzie, Sharpton, JJ , a host of the other usual suspects including MSNBC, CNN, NPR, etc.

21 posted on 07/31/2012 2:00:08 PM PDT by DrDavid (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Sherman Logan

One reason we rank higher in Infant Mortality is that we try to save a lot of premature babies that would (under socialist medicine) be counted as a miscarriage.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/infant_mortality_figures_for_us_are_misleading.html

One reason we rank higher is that we try to save a lot of premature babies that would (under socialist medicine) be counted as a miscarriage.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/infant_mortality_figures_for_us_are_misleading.html

Low birth weight infants are not counted against the “live birth” statistics for many countries reporting low infant mortality rates.

According to the way statistics are calculated in Canada, Germany, and Austria, a premature baby weighing <500gGgAgHgMgPGVGcgjgkglgmgpgG’sGAGEGIGUGaGegoGBGMGPGdGkGrgmgrgsgtFHfhCJKQcjkqWYwyABDEI is not considered a living child.

But in the U.S., such very low birth weight babies are considered live births. The mortality rate of such babies - considered “unsalvageableunsolvableinsolvable” outside of the U.S. and therefore never alive - is extraordinarily high; up to 869 per 1,000 in the first month of life alone. This skews U.S. infant mortality statistics.


22 posted on 07/31/2012 3:08:42 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: Sherman Logan

Let me try that again......

Low birth weight infants are not counted against the “live birth” statistics for many countries reporting low infant mortality rates.

According to the way statistics are calculated in Canada, Germany, and Austria, a premature baby weighing <500g is not considered a living child.

But in the U.S., such very low birth weight babies are considered live births. The mortality rate of such babies - considered “unsalvageable” outside of the U.S. and therefore never alive - is extraordinarily high; up to 869 per 1,000 in the first month of life alone. This skews U.S. infant mortality statistics.

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Some of the countries reporting infant mortality rates lower than the U.S. classify babies as “stillborn” if they survive less than 24 hours whether or not such babies breathe, move, or have a beating heart at birth.

Forty percent of all infant deaths occur in the first 24 hours of life.

In the United States, all infants who show signs of life at birth (take a breath, move voluntarily, have a heartbeat) are considered alive.

If a child in Hong Kong or Japan is born alive but dies within the first 24 hours of birth, he or she is reported as a “miscarriage” and does not affect the country’s reported infant mortality rates.

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Too short to count?

In Switzerland and other parts of Europe, a baby born who is less than 30 centimeters long is not counted as a live birth. Therefore, unlike in the U.S., such high-risk infants cannot affect Swiss infant mortality rates.

Efforts to salvage these tiny babies reflect this classification. Since 2000, 42 of the world’s 52 surviving babies weighing less than 400g (0.9 lbs.) were born in the United States.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/infant_mortality_figures_for_us_are_misleading.html#ixzz22EzF6Dw8


23 posted on 07/31/2012 3:10:50 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream

Thanks. I was actually somewhat aware of the complexities of comparing statistics from one nation to another. Similar problems pop up with comparing crime rates and other factors.

Statistics compiled with wildly different criteria can’t really be compared very profitably.

As I pointed out, life expectancy is usually calculated at birth, which makes infant mortality, however calculated, wildly influential.

I have seen life expectancy tables at age 20 and 50, and those seem to be more likely to be comparable.


24 posted on 07/31/2012 3:40:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: DrDavid

Shame on me for overlooking the obvious. Thanx.


25 posted on 07/31/2012 4:01:26 PM PDT by QT3.14 (We live in an era with Smart Phones and Dumb People)
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To: SeekAndFind

My grandmother was an avid reader, several books a week; didn’t spare her from senile dementia.


26 posted on 08/01/2012 11:29:49 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (WTB new tagline, PST!)
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