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? The sad state of U.S. life expectancy
Life expectancy continues to decline in the U.S. as it rebounds in other countries
"American children are less likely to live to age 5 than children in other high-income countries," the authors write on the second page. It goes on: "Even Americans with healthy behaviors, for example, those who are not obese or do not smoke, appear to have higher disease rates than their peers in other countries."
The researchers catalog what they call the "U.S. health disadvantage".
After looking across different age and racial and economic and geographic groups, he says, "what we found was that this problem existed in almost every category we looked at."
"There is data that actually shows that even the top proportion of the U.S. population does worse than the top proportion of other populations," she explains. "We were trying to just say – look, this is an American problem."