Stage 4 Cirrhosis = don't invest in green bananas
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| Britain |
| Britain sees surge in cirrhosis deaths |
| 2006-01-06 |
| Britain has had Europe's biggest increase in deaths from liver cirrhosis, a key indicator of alcohol consumption, a study published in The Lancet says. The research compared data for cirrhosis mortality among 12 western European countries for the period 1955-2001. Investigators noted a huge increase in Scotland, where the death rate for this disease doubled among men during the 1990s, and among British women generally, where it rose by almost half during the same period. In contrast, cirrhosis deaths in most other countries declined, especially in southern Europe. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 DB, so what you're saying is that this is all a plot of Tony Blair's NHS to cut down on costs? Brilliant!!! Over to you Howard. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2006-01-06 15:53 |
| #5 Well, it does save money on embalming. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-01-06 09:43 |
| #4 The Liver is evil, it must be punished. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-01-06 06:00 |
| #3 Healthy Liver = keep drinking Stage 4 Cirrhosis = don't invest in green bananas |
| Posted by: RD 2006-01-06 03:23 |
| #2 Apropos of not much at all, there was a TV show a couple of years back that put groups of tourists from different nations (UK, USA, Japan, Germany and a couple of others) through the same series of contrived situations to see how they reacted. I found it truly fascinating. The Brits of course drank their way through everything. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-01-06 01:34 |
| #1 Saddam made aflatoxin a prominent component of Iraq's special weapons arsenal, so maybe it's that. |
| Posted by: Rory B. Bellows 2006-01-06 01:21 |