Deaths from the top two causes of death, heart disease and cancer, each decreased by 3 percent while deaths from stroke, the third leading cause of death, fell one percent. However, deaths from Alzheimer's disease, flu, pneumonia and blood poisoning all increased.
The positive news of increased life expectancy came with a bit of a downside, as the infant mortality rate rose slightly in 2002 for the first time in decades. Infant deaths rose from 6.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001 to a rate of seven per 1,000 births in 2002.
Researchers suggested that the increase may be due to the fact that more American women are waiting until their 30s or 40s to have children, and then having multiple babies using fertility drugs. Or, it may be that infants who might have died prior to birth are surviving slightly longer and dying shortly after birth. They also mentioned that the increase was so slight it may have been a statistical blip.
Yahoo! News February 11, 2004
Some experts believe life expectancy will reach age 100 in less than 60 years. It is quite clear that elevated insulin levels are indeed one of the most significant physical influences that contribute to rapid aging, and there is no question that optimizing insulin levels is the key to optimizing the aging process.
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Unfortunately the way these statistics are compiled, they fail to segregate the data to show that physicians, not strokes, are the number three cause of death in the United States.
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