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IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 8, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(1):10-12; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi249
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

Reprints and Reflections

Public health aspects of weight control

Lester Breslow, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.P.H.A.1

Consultant, President's Commission on Health Needs of the Nation

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The major American health problems of today are perhaps most strikingly illustrated by comparing the mortality rates of adults in the United States with similar rates for certain other countries.

We may properly take pride in the increasing longevity of our population, in our low infant mortality rate, and in the rapid decline of our tuberculosis death rate. But we tend to let the bright light cast by these advances blind us to the shadows in our health picture. One of these shadows is the fact that the age-adjusted mortality rate from all causes among white males over 45 years of age is significantly higher in the United States than in many of the countries of Western Europe and English-speaking countries elsewhere. This is illustrated in Table 1.


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  		Table 1 Death rates per 100,000 Males at Ages 45 and Over for Certain Causes: United States (White) and Selected Countries, Postwar Experience

 
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