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Charlie, Bob D., et al.... Lissen, youse guys... what happens to that "2 to 5 times higher mortality ratio if one lives in Southern California as several of our fellow List members (including myself) do? Heck.... what with our daily drive-by shootings, and massive police chases where anyone in the street at the time of a chase gets mowed down, and there's also our weekly (chose one) earthquakes, fires, floods, and assorted acts of random violence.etc. Why in LOS ANGELES (my home town), that 2 to 5 ratio prolly changes to nearly 100% mortality when ya have PD, along with all those other hazards! YIKES!! I'm gonna move in with Ivan in MAINE! (Move over, Mr.. Suzman) <grinning> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Charles T. Meyer, M.D. <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, December 12, 1998 9:23 AM Subject: Re: Ron Alexander's demise >HI BOB, > >Thanks for the up-to-date data. I am not glad to hear that but it certainly goes >along with my intuition. And its good to have it documented for political >reasons. > >Charlie > >robert l dolezal wrote: > >> Charlie wrote: >> >> So technically nobody tie of PD they die of the complications of PD. Also PD >> does not seem to materially shorten life - which goes against intuition since >> many of us have seen people die who wouldn't have died if they didn't have PD. >> >> The article on PD by Lang and Lozano in the October 8, 1998 NEJofM, states >> as follows: "The impact of the disease is indicated by the fact that >> mortality is two to five times as high ammong affected persons as among >> age-matched controls, resulting in a marked reduction in life expectancy." >> And, later, "Thus, Parkinson's disease greatly shortens life as well as >> causing debility during life." >> >> Bob Dolezal > >-- >******************************************************************** ********************** > >Charles T. Meyer, M.D. >Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin >[log in to unmask] >******************************************************************** ********************** >