The life expectancy of people with Down syndrome increased dramatically between 19.What is the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome? This means that in 2008 about 250,700 children, teens, and adults were living with Down syndrome in the United States. Researchers estimated that in 2008 about 1 out of every 1,200 people (children, teens, and adults) living in the United States had Down syndrome.This means that in 2002 about 83,000 children and teenagers were living with Down syndrome. In 2002, about 1 out of every 1,000 children and teenagers (0 to 19 years old) living in the United States had Down syndrome.To estimate the prevalence of Down syndrome, the number of pregnancies affected by Down syndrome is compared to the total number of live births. Prevalence is an estimate of how often a condition occurs among a certain group of people.

In other words, the prevalence of Down syndrome increases as the mother’s age increases.

Older mothers are more likely to have a baby affected by Down syndrome than younger mothers.

Between 19, the number of babies born with Down syndrome increased by about 30%.

Each year, about 6,000 babies are born with Down syndrome, which is about 1 in every 700 babies born.

Down syndrome continues to be the most common chromosomal disorder.

How many people are living with Down syndrome in the United States? Read below for recent statistics on Down syndrome in the United States. He is also down, but for a person it has a different meaning, it means “sad”.In recent years, Down syndrome has become more common, and children with Down syndrome are living longer. I’M DOWN LIKE THE ECONOMY= At the moment of writing this song (end of 2008) the whole world was at deep recession, so the economy is down. This is an imperative form, so we shouldn’t use the subject YOU, but we can use it to emphasize the imperative (to make it stronger). If we use “don’t” we can’t use “never”, because we would have a double negative, so we say “ever”. “The side of me” is a twisted way of simply saying “my side” (and not very correct either). In fact, it has no meaning this time, it’s simply a common way to start a sentence, especially after a pause.īATTLEFIELD= The place where a battle takes place.īABY CUPID= Cupid is the Greek god of love, but in modern culture we usually represent it as a little boy or baby shooting arrows to make people fall in love (if you’re hit, you fall in love).ĭON’T YOU EVER LEAVE THE SIDE OF ME= Never leave my side. NOW, CAN I BE…= In the previous line he said “now she’s my Miss America”, and here he repeats the word NOW, but with a different meaning. This means that she is the most beautiful girl he knows (it’s the American rapper singing this). SHE MY MISS AMERICA= She is my Miss America (again he drops the verb “to be”). In America, part of the foreign countries are overseas, but many are not (Canada and most South American countries are abroad but not overseas). The UK is an island, so the adverb “overseas” (= farther than the sea) is the same as “abroad” (= from/in a foreign country). In very colloquial English you can sometimes drop the verb “to be”. But here, “she gets down low for me” probably has some sexual connotations that you can guess, that’s why they censored the word “low” on this video and we get “she gets down for me”, and “to get down” simply means to dance. The sentence “down like she is supposed to be” means “people think she is down” (so it’s probably true, but not sure). WHY DON’T WE RUN AWAY?= One of the common ways of expressing suggestions is using the question “why don’t we.?” LET IT BE= Relax and don’t worry about it. YOU ARE MY ONLY= You are my only one (my only love). LEAVE IT BEHIND= Forget about all your problems. Here it means: get wild, dance like crazy, let everybody watch you and think “wow” (like on a show). TO LET IT GO= To forget about all your problems and relax. YOU OUGHTA KNOW= You ought to know, you should know.

THE SKY IS FALLING DOWN= Everything around you is a disaster, everything’s going wrong. ARE YOU DOWN?= Are you sad? Are you depressed?

Baby are you down down down girl