X-Message-Number: 31052
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Leading cause of disability-adjusted life years is a psychiat...
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:01:35 +0200

The absence of a social component in the cryonics 'package' becomes  
increasingly untenable as psycho-social disability becomes the leading  
cause of disease. The UN estimates that depression will be the leading  
cause of disability by 2020.


http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1285720

Unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating condition  
with a lifetime prevalence of 17%. Recent epidemiological evidence  
indicates that MDD is the fourth leading cause of disease burden and  
the leading cause of disability-adjusted life years


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_years

Looking at the burden of disease via DALYs can reveal surprising  
things about a population's health. For example, the 1990 WHO report  
indicated that 5 of the 10 leading causes of disability were  
psychiatric conditions.


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