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Ivan: >>> Ivan M Suzman <[log in to unmask]> 06/12/98 01:09am >>> Hi Bob, Stefan, Elizabeth, Art and Barb M., >>>Now that I realize we're dead if we survive PD more than 10 years, my trip to Washington has taken on a whole new dimension ....... The Adventures of a Parkinsghost in the Great Beyond..... Does all this mean I should ask Jim Cordy a bit more about the best way to approach Senator Arlen Specter?<<< At the hospital, he's recovering from heart bypass surgery. Stephan 53/7 Ivan Suzman :-)) 48/11 / 2nd year of Parkinsghosting I guess I'm somewhere into my second year of being POST-Parkinsonian!!! ^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^ Ivan Suzman 48/11 [log in to unmask] Portland, Maine land of lighthouses deg. F *********************************************************** On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:37:16 -0700 robert l dolezal <[log in to unmask]> writes: >NIH says that 50,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with >PD >each year. Of all the Parkinson's statistics tossed around, this >should >be the easiest to come up with, and most accurate (although it still >may >not be REALLY accurate.) But, assuming this is true, and if there >are >500,000 with the disease in the country, and that number remains >relatively >stable, year after year, doesn't this mean that each year 50,000 with >the >disease must die? (50,000 x 10 = 500,000, so if 500,000 is stable >then >...) > >Doesn't that, in turn, mean that average lifespan after diagnosis of >PD is >a mere 10 years? And, if average age at diagnosis is 57, one-half >of the >annual diagnosis is younger than 57. > >So, if 50,000 of us die off each year, then 10% of the PD population >goes >to the great beyond each year. Assuming that those diagnosed at a >younger >age (under 57) survive longer, doesn't this mean that those of us >OVER >57 must be passing on at a rate even faster than 10%? > >If this is true, wouldn't it mean that I am already dead? > > >Bob 62 and 23/24ths/6 >