excess mortality

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excess mortality

[ikses′]

Etymology: L, excedere, to go out, mortalis, mortal

a premature death, or one that occurs before the average life expectancy for a person of a particular demographic category.

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However, based on current information, the true occasional cigar smoker has shown little if any true excess mortality.

Smokers and Life Insurance, What You Know Can Save You Dough! by Christopher D. Beard / Finance and Investment community

Suicide is the single largest contributor to this excess mortality rate, which is 10 to 13 percent higher in schizophrenia than the general population.

Schizophrenia Disease- Treatment of Schizophrenia by Peter Sams / Health, general community

It is also possible that some of the excess mortality in smokers represents smoking-related comorbidity, including cardiac disease and lung cancer.

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Outcome in Relation to Smoking Status by Katerina M Antoniou and David M Hansell and Michael B Rubens and Katharina Marten and Sujal R Desai / American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

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