With death rate up, US life expectancy is likely down again

Death rates rose for Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, flu and pneumonia, and three other leading causes of death

With death rate up, US life expectancy is likely down again

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. death rate rose last year, and 2017 likely will mark the third straight year of decline in American life expectancy, according to preliminary data.

Death rates rose for Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, flu and pneumonia, and three other leading causes of death, according to numbers posted online Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Full-year data is not yet available for drug overdoses, suicides or firearm deaths. But partial-year statistics in those categories showed continuing increases.  Read More…

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