{"id":22666,"date":"2024-04-04T08:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22666"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:13:40","slug":"covid-cut-life-expectancy-by-1-6-years-globally-but-the-leading-causes-of-death-havent-changed-since-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22666","title":{"rendered":"Covid cut life expectancy by 1.6 years globally, but the leading causes of death haven\u2019t changed since 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Annalisa Merelli for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leading causes of death haven\u2019t changed since 1990 \u2014 with one glaring, pandemic-sized exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the latest analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study, which reviewed deaths from 288 causes in over 200 states and territories, Covid-19 was the only condition that broke into the ranks \u2014 if only for two years \u2014 of the global population\u2019s traditional top five killers: ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lower respiratory infections. In 2020 and 2021, Covid-19 was the second-leading cause, pushing stroke to third position.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/03\/leading-cause-of-death-new-lancet-global-study-heart-disease-covid-stroke\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/03\/leading-cause-of-death-new-lancet-global-study-heart-disease-covid-stroke\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"26\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Annalisa Merelli for STAT) The leading causes of death haven\u2019t changed since 1990 \u2014 with one glaring, pandemic-sized exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,52],"tags":[1231,75,1230,74,1232,469],"class_list":["post-22666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-pandemic","tag-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease","tag-covid-19","tag-ischemic-heart-disease","tag-life-expectancy","tag-lower-respiratory-infections","tag-stroke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22667,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions\/22667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}