I found the ABC (oz) news reporting a bit deficient on this. Leading disease risk factor doesn't have to mean its rising, it can be that smoking has fallen and now, people who would have died of COPD and Cancer caused by smoking die of COPD and different cancers, caused by morbid obesity.
Its probably just me but I found the language around absolutes and relatives a bit flakey. The overall population is rising so absolutes trend upward but leading goes to relatives, and so the rate of increase against population increase is material.
Its probably just me but I found the language around absolutes and relatives a bit flakey. The overall population is rising so absolutes trend upward but leading goes to relatives, and so the rate of increase against population increase is material.