Accelerating deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdoses fueled a second straight year of worsening life expectancy, down to the shortest it has been since 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.The estimates, published in anew reportnow analyzing the "final data" on Am...
The United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span. Japan has the longestlife expectancy- 83 years for children born in 2007, according to the World Health Organization. The CDC report found that the number of deaths and the overall death rate dropped fro...
CDC Report Finds Americans Living LongerAmericans are living longer since the last decade as lifeexpectancy is up to about 76 years for...King, Robert
"Life expectancy has been increasing gradually every year for the past several decades," Elizabeth Arias, a CDC researcher who worked on the report, told Reuters. "The decline between 2019 and 2020 was so large that it took us back to the levels we were in 2003. So...
A new report from the CDC published Wednesday found life expectancy in the U.S. increased to 77.5 years in 2022 due to fewer deaths linked to COVID-19.
The report also found that between 2018 and 2019, life expectancy declined in 14 states, ranging from 0.1 years to 0.5 years. Five states had no change and 31 states and Washington, D.C., saw increases between 0.1 years and 0.5 years. ...
(HealthDay)—Life expectancy in the United States has declined for two years in a row, fueled by increasing death rates from opioid drug overdoses, suicides and chronic liver disease, a new government report shows. "It's really the first time we've seen this multi-year drop" in decades,...
CDC HEALTH DISPARITIES AND INEQUALITIES REPORT Coronary heart disease and stroke are not only leading causes of death in the United States,but also account for the largest proportion of inequality in life expectancy between whites and blacks, despite the existence of low-cost,highly... TR Frieden...
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