U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993

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For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year — a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States. Rising fatalities from heart disease and stroke, diabetes, drug overdoses, accidents and other conditions caused the lower life expectancy revealed in a report released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. In all, death rates rose for eight of the top 10 leading causes of death. “I think we should be very concerned,” said Princeton economist Anne Case, who called for thorough research on the increase in deaths from heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the United States. “This is singular. This doesn’t happen.” ... Several experts pointed out that other Western nations are not seeing similar rises in mortality, suggesting an urgency to determine what is unique about health, health care and socioeconomic conditions in the United States. “Mortality rates in middle age have totally flat*lined in the U.S. for people in their 30s and 40s and 50s, or have been increasing,” Case said. “What we really need to do is find out why we have stopped making progress against heart disease. And I don’t have the answer to that.” Meara noted that more people need better health care but that “the health-care system is only a part of health.” Income inequality, nutrition differences and lingering unemployment all need to be addressed, she said.

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Don't worry. There's no need for Americans to take any advice from those that manage better than them or embrace their practices. That would imply that America has something to learn from others even-though we know that America is 1#.

Now that they have elected Trump he'll find an all-american solution that's better than all other countries in the world and just like back in them good old days the world will be envious of Americans prosperity. The age in which other developed countries derided the incapable Americans is finally over!

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