Men and women had similar rates, but states differed significantly, with California as low as 0.84 AEMT deaths per 100,000. In absolute terms this averages to about 4,750 deaths a year, less than 2 percent of the lowest estimate published in 2016.[49] Translated into a comparative risk metric, this results in about 1.2 × 10-6 fatalities per hour of exposure, which means that any elderly male reader of this book (whose general mortality risk is between 3 × 10-6 and 5 × 10-6) will increase his risk of demise due to AEMT by no more than about 20–30 percent during the few days of an average stay
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