Why do families have to wait until their husbands, brothers, sons or fathers die before they can talk about the disease that killed them?

On Nov. 2 the National Academy of Sciences released the study "Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife Among White Non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century," which was co-authored by one of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize in economics.

The study discusses the causes of premature death for middle-aged men but failed to mention the stigma associated with the diseases that killed them.

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