Life Expectancy

Differences in life expectancy between Black and white Americans decreased in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new brief report revealed.

Adults in the United Kingdom with an ADHD diagnosis appear to have shorter lifespans compared with the general population, likely due to unmet health support and treatment needs, according to a study in The British Journal of Psychiatry.

Although most older adults supported guidelines to discontinue colon cancer screening after age 75 years, a “sizable minority” did not, regardless of estimated life expectancy, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

More men with limited life expectancy and certain localized prostate cancers have received definitive treatment over the past 2 decades despite shifts toward active surveillance, according to results of a retrospective study.

Global increases in life expectancy have been accompanied by a similar rise in the number of years living with the effects of disease.

The lower mortality rate experienced after age 85 years among Black adults in the United States persisted up to 100 years of age, a study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine showed.

An overall decline in population health has resulted in the U.S. falling behind in life expectancy gains compared with those of other high-income countries, particularly the U.K., findings from two new reports suggested.

The life expectancy gap in the United States widened to over 20 years in the last 2 decades, with significant variations in life expectancy across diverse populations, study results published in The Lancet revealed.

Adults aged older than 40 years could extend their life expectancy by over 5 years if they matched the physical activity of that of the most active 25% of the U.S. population, a study showed.

The rise in human life expectancy has slowed significantly in the past couple of decades, with only a small percentage of recent births expected to reach the age of 100 years, an analysis in Nature Aging showed.