Yorkshiiiiiire!!1

crushes beer can on forehead

The researchers plan further analyses to investigate which causes of death are contributing to the differences.

Save your clicks. Nothing useful yet.

They also mention “people under 75”, so I assume they’re just using quarter-century ranges: 0–24; 25–49; 50–74; and 75–99.

Actually, here's a figure from the original study that uses 5-year bands, and you can see the anomaly covers those specific bands (with the under-25 bands looking more like random noise, which I assume is a statistical effect of the low number of total deaths in that range).

Plus moving power rings to Mordor is some of the Shire's job too. It can't be good for health...

It seems like a lot of likely causes would be outside the scope of a medical study (for example, the age range is specifically working-age people, so it could be due to changes in occupations).

Why strange? This is quite a common age range where you exclude the children and college kids and go to middle age. Or you just cut a 100 year life into 4 quarters.