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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">dying middle aged</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate -&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>] poisonings -&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-group-of-middle-aged-american-whites-is-dying-at-a-startling-rate/2015/11/02/47a63098-8172-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74b2a7_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-group-of-middle-aged-american-whites-is-dying-at-a-startling-rate/2015/11/02/47a63098-8172-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74b2a7_story.html</a>&nbsp;</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 2015-11-02</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE auto summary by smmry.com]</h2> <p>A large segment of white middle-aged Americans has suffered a startling rise in its death rate since 1999, according to a review of statistics published Monday that shows a sharp reversal in decades of progress toward longer lives.</p> <p>Death rates for that group dropped steadily, and at a faster pace.</p> <p>The rising death rate was accompanied by an increase in the rate of illness, the authors wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</p> <p>Death rates for other developed nations examined by the two researchers, as well as rates for U.S. blacks and Hispanics, continued their steady decline of recent decades.</p> <p>While the death rate for African Americans is still greater than the rate for whites, the turnaround among whites is shocking because of the advantages they enjoy, said David Weir, director of the health and retirement study at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.</p> <p>Just last week, researchers reported that the U.S. death rate for all causes declined 43 percent between 1969 and 2013, from about 1,279 per 100,000 people to about 730.</p> <p>The rate of death caused by strokes, heart disease and cancer all declined significantly, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.</p> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] SRC = hn - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499434" target="_blank">comments</a>&nbsp;</li> </ol>