Journal article
Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018
- Abstract:
- Within the first seven weeks of 2018, some 93 990 people died in England and Wales. Over the same weeks in the previous five years, an average of 83 615 people died. This rise of 12.4%, or 10 375 additional deaths, was not due to the ageing of the population. Ageing is a slow process and leads to slow, not sudden, rises in mortality. An additional person died every seven minutes during the first 49 days of 2018 compared with what had been usual in the previous five years. Why?
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/bmj.k1090
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- BMJ Publishing Group
- Journal:
- BMJ More from this journal
- Volume:
- 360
- Pages:
- k1090
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-09
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1756-1833
- ISSN:
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0959-8138
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pubs:829621
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uuid:903a3ffc-a394-44e8-92e5-d8c180ed56fe
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pubs:829621
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829621
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- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- Copyright © 2018 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the BMJ Publishing Group at: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k1090
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