Asbestos Victims Younger Now?
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization says that asbestos patients are about 20 years younger than asbestos patients 20 years ago. New asbestos patients now are about 51 years old and about half of those patients are women. Oddly, many of these patients had no direct exposure to asbestos. In 1990, a study was published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that indicated that the typical asbestos patients was male and about 70 years old.
Based on these data, ADAO says that the patient profile devised by the 1990 CDC study "no longer represents the patients of today." Prevention remains the only cure for asbestos-related diseases. Lawmakers still are working to institute an asbestos ban.
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