This entire article is quite revealing, but wanted to bring attention to the following quote: "But the diseases that caused the most misery, known in the lingo as disability-adjusted life years, are low back pain, major depressive disorder, other musculoskeletal disorders, neck pain, and anxiety disorders. In fact, Americans are more disabled now than they were 10 years ago, the researchers found. “The gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, a measure of the expected number of healthy years that an individual loses to disability—increased from 9.4 to 10.1 years. In other words, individuals in the US are living longer, but not necessarily in good health,” they concluded." Very interesting.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:52:38 +0000
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