Wonderful Women Wednesday: Life Spans Drop in Poorer Areas of Country
A recent study that was released showed that women’s life expectancy declined significantly in 180 United States counties - mostly in the deep south and Appalachia between 1983 and 1999.
The women’s life expectancy decrease was due to obesity, high blood pressure, and chronic diseases related to smoking, lung cancer and diabetes.
The decline averaged 1.3 years in the 180 counties. Men’s life expectancy declined by 1.3 years in only 11 counties.
In another 783 counties, women’s life expectancy declined by 0.5 years, but the researchers said those results were not statistically significant because those counties were relatively small.
The analysis was conducted by researchers at Harvard University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Washington.
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