Life Expectancy

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced the world’s life expectancy by about 2 years, according to recent estimates published in Population and Development Review.

Young adults in the U.S. may increase their life expectancy by more than a decade if they optimize their diet to include more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat, according to findings published in PLoS Medicine.

Mesalamine correlated with the longest life expectancy among older adult patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to research published in BMC Gastroenterology.

Black, American Indian/Alaska Native and Latino individuals had more than double the rate of excess deaths than white and Asian individuals in 2020, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The gap in life expectancy between Black and white Americans has narrowed over the past 3 decades from 7 years to 3.6 years, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Researchers estimated that the COVID-19 pandemic shortened aggregate U.S. life expectancy by more than 9 million years, and Black and Hispanic individuals lost more than twice as many quality-adjusted life years per capita than white individuals.

Provisional data from the CDC revealed a 1.5-year decline in life expectancy in the United States from 2019 to 2020.

Patients on maintenance dialysis in Taiwan were employed for fewer years during their lifetime than individuals from the general population without kidney failure.

United States residents in counties with fewer primary care physicians to serve their population could potentially see sizeable increases in life expectancy with the addition of more PCPs, researchers wrote.

In the first half of 2020, life expectancy for the total U.S. population dropped an entire year, bringing it to 77.8 years, according to the CDC.