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I've always seen the factoid as you have it, but 60,000 cases new each year as opposed to 600,000. I am one of those guilty of repeating stuff like this over and over. If anyone can come up with better statistics, I'd love to have them! We live and die on numbers like this for fundraising! Thanks, Meg -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amanda Phillips Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 4:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: PD Patch a Plus In a message dated 09/07/2007 07:01:27 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: I've been seeing this little factoid repeatedly in articles about PD, but it doesn't make sense. At 8:00 AM -0400 7/7/07, Amanda Phillips wrote: > >Roughly 1.5 million Americans have Parkinson's and 600,000 new cases are >diagnosed each year, most often in people older than 60 If these numbers are correct they imply a life expectancy for us of less than three years. -- Steve Rack Brattleboro VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn I didn't write that ! I'm a late riser :) and, flippin' heck I REFUSE to die in 3 years - I'm going to live long enough to bore everyone stiff and ruin all the statistics ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn