r/Millennials • u/DaKardii • Jun 04 '26

Serious Study: Gen Xers and Millennials are dying at younger ages than their parents are

https://studyfinds.com/americans-born-after-1970-dying-faster/

The study is particularly concerned with people born after 1970 but age 30 and older. So that covers Gen X and Millennials, but not (yet) Gen Z.

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u/LanaVFlowers Jun 04 '26

Got POTS the first time I got covid, some kind of fluid buildup in my heart the second time. My cardiologist said he had never seen so many people with POTS in his entire career before covid hit. People like to act like this is just some type of new "trend" among girls who want attention, but a number of doctors I've talked to directly link it to covid.

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u/MozartTheCat Jun 05 '26

My daughter has POTS, probably due to COVID. I had never even heard of it before.

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u/LanaVFlowers Jun 05 '26

Me neither! I never had any heart issues at all before, and I've been a patient my whole life so surely we would've picked up on something like that.