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US life expectancy down for a second year

21-Dec-2017

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Health researcher claim that Americans are dying younger, and life expectancy is now down for the second straight year — something not seen in more than half a century.

Fewer people make it to age 65. And the biggest killers of young people include what statisticians call “unintentional injuries” — a category that covers drug overdoses, traffic crashes and falls.

Deaths from those causes rose 9.7% in 2016.

Suicides also increased in 2016, as did reported deaths from Alzheimer’s disease

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National public health institute of the United States.

Jonathan Skinner

Professor at Dartmouth College.

Robert Anderson

Chief of Mortality Statistics Branch at National Center for Health Statistics.

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