I am speaking of the retrospective studies that have been done comparing the JW population to the population that consents to blood transfusions.
Mortality risk stratification in severely anaemic Jehovah’s
- A. M. Beliaev,1 R. J. Marshall,3 W. Smith2 and J. A. Windsor4
- Carson JL1, Noveck H, Berlin JA, Gould SA.
Are transfusions overrated? Surgical outcome of Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Kitchens CS.
Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses
- David H. W. WongLeonard C. Jenkins
What can we learn about the need for transfusion from patients
who refuse blood? The experience with Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Viele, Weiskoff
*edit to add - and then, of course, all the maternal mortality studies that have been done on JW women have been the adult pop
And then, there are the flawed retrospective studies which I have posted about before in this forum. And those only considered adult populations.
Dr. Muramto's estimate proceeds from a retrospective study that only uses adults. And likewise, all estimates that have been done in addition to that one do not include the pediatric population. To consider the JW population as being entirely consisting of adults actually skews the death numbers in favor of less JWs dying, not more. The pediatric population in general has a higher mortality risks than does the adult population.