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Is young adult excess mortality a natural phenomenon?
Authors: Adrien Remund, Carlo Giovanni Camarda and Tim Riffe The risk of death is high at birth and during the first years of life, but it decreases through childhood to a minimum at around 10 years. It then begins a steady increase throughout adult life. Young adults, however, are often an exception, with higher than expected mortality, as Adrien Remund, Carlo ...