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Drug overdoses, suicides push life expectancy in U.S. behind other developed nations
[Wash Times] Drugs and suicide are pushing down life expectancy in the U.S.That’s according to a special report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found rising rates of overdose deaths, suicide and chronic liver disease, even as Americans improve survival rates for the leading causes of death, such as heart disease and cancer. Published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, the report provides a snapshot of the health of the nation and points out how the opioid epidemic, mental illness, rising rates of obesity and Alzheimer’s disease are threatening lives. "This special feature on mortality certainly was based on an interest in looking at what was happening with life expectancy," said Renee M. Gindi, lead author of the report and chief of the Analytic Studies Branch at the NCHS, which is part of the CDC. Specifically, U.S. life expectancy decreased from 2014 to 2016, from 78.9 years to 78.6 years ‐ two or three years earlier than the life expectancy of almost all other developed nations. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-09-20 |
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