Life Expectancy For White Women In The US Suffers A Rare Drop
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2016
- It's a small and rare decline in life expectancy for women, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's extremely significant.
The life expectancy of white, non-Hispanic women in the U.S. dipped from 81.2 years to 81.1 years from 2013 to 2014, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
While it's a fraction of a year, the CDC says it shows a bigger problem for a wealthy nation.
A CDC demographer told The Washington Post the decline can, in part, be attributed to drug overdoses, smoking, alcohol, disease and suicide.
"Increases in ... suicide, chronic liver disease and unintentional poisonings were so large that they had a negative effect on life expectancy."
The report showed bad news for white females, but relatively good news for other demographics.
Hispanics and blacks both saw gains in life expectancy. The numbers for white males stayed the same.
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.1 year less to buy shoes. Damn.
Must be all that diabetes fault.
It's just white women catching up to women of other colors. More white women are on their own now at rates similar to other races vs in the past. When women are on their own with deadbeat dads having to do all of the raising of the kids AND financially supporting them, it leads to poorer health, a fatalistic view of life, increase in drug and alcohol use etc. It's supposed to be a shared load so obviously it will take its toll. Most of it can really be linked back to the crumbling family units. Guarantee single white mothers have shorter life expectancies than their counterparts with families still in tact. The correlation is there.
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Wait.. 81.1 YEARS old ?Most of the women in my family die in their fifties. :/.