Death rates among 25–49-year-olds 42% higher in the North than the South of England
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Yorkshiiiiiire!!1
crushes beer can on forehead
Plus moving power rings to Mordor is some of the Shire's job too. It can't be good for health...
Save your clicks. Nothing useful yet.
It seems like a lot of likely causes would be outside the scope of a medical study (for example, the age range is specifically working-age people, so it could be due to changes in occupations).
They also mention “people under 75”, so I assume they’re just using quarter-century ranges: 0–24; 25–49; 50–74; and 75–99.
Actually, here's a figure from the original study that uses 5-year bands, and you can see the anomaly covers those specific bands (with the under-25 bands looking more like random noise, which I assume is a statistical effect of the low number of total deaths in that range).
Why strange? This is quite a common age range where you exclude the children and college kids and go to middle age. Or you just cut a 100 year life into 4 quarters.