High Deaths in Middle Age – Doctor John Campbell January 4, 2024 Unipro2013main Covid Scandal, News, World News </p> <h2>High deaths in middle age</h2> <p> Excess mortality in England post Covid-19 pandemic: implications for secondary prevention</p> <p>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776223002211?via%3Dihub</p> <p>Many countries, including the UK, have continued to experience an apparent excess of deaths long after the peaks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.</p> <p>Numbers of excess deaths estimated in this period are considerable.</p> <p>The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has calculated that there were 7.2% or 44,255 more deaths registered in the UK in 2022</p> <p>OECD, UK</p> <p>https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676</p> <p>Excess deaths in 2022, 52,514 (9.26%)</p> <p>This persisted into 2023 with 8.6% or 28,024 more deaths registered in the first six months of the year than expected.</p> <p>OECD, UK, weeks 1 – 44, 2023</p> <p>Excess deaths, 49,389 (9.44%)</p> <p>The causes of these excess deaths are likely to be multiple and could include the direct effects of Covid-19 infection,</p> <p>acute pressures on NHS acute services resulting in poorer outcomes from episodes of acute illness,</p> <p>and disruption to chronic disease detection and management.</p> <p>Further analysis by cause and by age- and sex-group may help quantify the relative contributions of these causes.</p> <p>Office for Health Improvement and Disparities</p> <p>3rd June 2022 to 30th June 2023</p> <p>Excess deaths for all causes were relatively greatest for 50–64 year olds (15% higher than expected)</p> <p>11% higher for 25–49 and under 25 year olds,</p> <p>and about 9% higher for over 65s</p> <p>Several causes</p> <p>3rd June 2022–30th June 2023</p> <p>All cardiovascular diseases, 12%</p> <p>Heart failure, 20%</p> <p>Ischaemic heart disease, 15</p> <p>Liver diseases, 19%</p> <p>Acute respiratory infections, 14%</p> <p>Diabetes, 13%</p> <p>For middle-aged adults (50–64)</p> <p>Cardiovascular diseases, 33% higher than expected</p> <p>Ischaemic heart disease, 44%</p> <p>Cerebrovascular disease, 40%</p> <p>Heart failure 39% higher</p> <p>Deaths involving acute respiratory infections, 43% higher</p> <p>Diabetes, deaths were 35% higher</p> <p>The pattern now is one of persisting excess deaths which are most prominent in relative terms in middle-aged and younger adults</p> <p>Timely and granular analyses are needed to describe such trends and so to inform prevention and disease management efforts.</p> <p>JP-S is Partner at Lane Clark & Peacock LLP, Chair of the Royal Society for Public Health and reports personal fees from Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Ltd outside of this submitted work.<br /> Credit to : Dr. John Campbell</p> <p> Please support our Sponsors here :
