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COVID-19 pandemic greatly contributed to a year-and-a-half decrease in life expectancy, new CDC report finds
Life expectancy dropped from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 in 2020, the CDC estimated, blaming coronav…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Americans Should Be Living Longer [CHARTS]
Moreover, as the OECD report itself notes, since 1970 the gains in U.S. life expectancy have been m…
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Map reveals your life expectancy depending on the state you live in
Mississippi had the lowest life expectancy in the US and Hawaii had the highest in a 2019 report fr…
Andrea Michelson
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US life expectancy declined even more than previously thought in 2020
The CDC released new data on Wednesday that showed life expectancy in 2020 was 77 years, down from …
Kelly McLaughlin
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Climate change may reduce average life expectancy by half a year: Study
Climate change may take six months off the average human lifespan, according to a study which found…
PTI
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New York City's average life expectancy may have dipped by 5 years due to the coronavirus. Here's how that compares to past epidemics.
The 1918 flu pandemic resulted in a 12-year decrease in life expectancy in the US, but the decline …
Aria Bendix
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Being Overweight Isn't Always A Health Problem
The body may use fat tissue to mop up excess lipids caused by overeating. These chemicals, which in…
The Economist
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This Simple Sitting Test Could Predict How Long You'll Live
It seems like a pretty rudimentary test of conditioning, but Araujo found that it could predict lif…
Mother Nature Network
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Two Depressing Charts About Life Expectancy In The US
Instead, our life expectancy is no longer rising as quickly as other countries. That's likely becau…
Dina Spector
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Pessimists Live Longer
Other contradictory studies suggest that the jury's still out on the secret to longevity and succes…
LiveScience Staff
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New Brain Research Could Help Us Live Longer
"If we just activated this pathway in the hypothalamus, it accelerated aging," study researcher Don…
Robert Ferris
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These 10 Everyday Activities Are Slowly Killing You
We've all heard that stress can be harmful to our health and immune system, but research published …
Kelly Dickerson
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The world has lost 20.5 million years of life because of premature COVID-19 deaths, a new study found
To determine how many years of life the pandemic took, researchers compared the ages of people who …
Aria Bendix
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COVID-19 has dropped life expectancy in Sweden by the biggest amount since 1944, as a top official warns there is 'no signs' of herd immunity
Swedish life expectancy is set to fall as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a second wav…
Grace Dean
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17 Things That Will Make You Live Longer
It sounds like it's going to be a while before we see the life-enhancing benefits of Calico, so we'…
Dina Spector
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Stressed-out CEOs visibly age faster and die earlier, according to a new study
A working paper looked at signs of aging in prominent CEOs and found that stress and other market f…
Annabelle Williams
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Here are the states with the highest and lowest life expectancies
This divergence is most evident on a county level. In Summit County, Colorado, home to ski resorts …