Death Rates Due To Heart Attacks And Strokes Increase

Enough to affect life expectancy:

Heart disease death rates have increased for the first time in decades and stroke death rates also have gone up, according to new federal statistics that show a drop in U.S. life expectancy.

While there is no obvious explanation for the small jump in these death rates published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Heart Association President Steven Houser, Ph.D., said they reinforce the urgency of preventing heart disease and stroke – the two leading causes of death in the world.

These are diseases of anger. Anger will increase risk of both stroke and heart attack. If there is one emotion that will accompany the arrival of K-selection, it will be anger. Anger is why you fight, why you in-group, and why you act. It is the one emotion which will dissipate the apathy of r-selection.

Notice how liberals are obsessed with the elimination of hate. hate is anger, and liberals know deep down that when people express anger as hate, it heralds the arrival of K-selection. Eons of evolution have burned a revulsion of hate into the rabbit’s very DNA.

Interestingly, the last time there was a diminution in life expectancy was in an economic downturn as well, and it was right before the Republican take over of Congress:

Still, he believes the data from 2015 are worth paying attention to. Over that year, the overall death rate increased from 724.6 per 100,000 people to 733.1 per 100,000.

While that’s not a lot, it was enough to cause the overall life expectancy to fall slightly. That’s only happened a few times in the past 50 years. The dip in 1993, for example, was due to high death rates from AIDS, flu, homicide and accidental deaths that year.

Mortality and K-selection are linked at the hip. K-selection provokes mortality, and for that reason we evolved such that mortal salience stimuli provokes a K-selected psychology.

As a result, in 1993 life expectancy declines, and then in 1994 the Republicans take Congress in a historic K-sweep. Then it’s 2015, life expectancy declines again, and then in 2016 the ultimate K-strategist takes the White House as K rises all over.

It would be interesting if data on life expectancy and deaths due to heart attacks and strokes could be used to tease out the finer fluctuations of r and K for purposes of investing and electoral prognostications.

Either way, all signs point to Apocalypse.

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