also, medical literature confirms this but says it’s still increasing: “Despite some initial decrements in malnutrition mortality among older adults in the U.S., the uptrend from 2013 to 2020 nullified all established progress. […] The burden of the mortality uptrends disproportionately affected certain demographics, namely persons ≥ 85 years of age, females, Non-Hispanic Whites, those living in the West region of the U.S., and urban areas.”
source here https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malnutrition-death-rates?tab=chart&time=2003..latest&country=VNM~USA~PRK~CUB~CHN
also, medical literature confirms this but says it’s still increasing: “Despite some initial decrements in malnutrition mortality among older adults in the U.S., the uptrend from 2013 to 2020 nullified all established progress. […] The burden of the mortality uptrends disproportionately affected certain demographics, namely persons ≥ 85 years of age, females, Non-Hispanic Whites, those living in the West region of the U.S., and urban areas.”
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-023-03143-8