Life Expectancy

The COVID-19 pandemic may wipe out life expectancy gains that took more than a dozen years for the United States to achieve, according to researchers.

Exposure to chronic disease risk factors rose in the past decade, suggesting that if lifestyle changes are not made, life expectancy could begin to drop and the COVID-19 pandemic could be exacerbated, experts said.

Life expectancy increased by 3 years for adults with obesity who had bariatric surgery compared with usual care; however, life expectancy was still shorter than that for the general population, according to researchers in Sweden.

Adults with diabetes in the United Kingdom live fewer years on average than people without diabetes and 100 days for each year an HbA1c above 7.5%, according to study data.

Researchers observed no temporal trends in HRs regarding the link between atrial fibrillation and all-cause mortality in participants from the Framingham Heart Study.

Although it was thought that drug overdoses and deaths may be the reason for stalled increase in U.S. life expectancy, a stall in the decline of CV deaths may be the more likely reason, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The past 3 years were marked by historic accomplishments that put HHS in a strong position to tackle the challenges that lie ahead, HHS Secretary Alex Azar II said at a speech to his employees Thursday.

In 2018, American life expectancy increased for the first time in 4 years, data show. Also in 2018, fewer Americans died of drug overdoses than the year before for the first time in more than 20 years.

Areas with higher social mobility have a smaller life expectancy gap between rich and poor individuals, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA — Atrial fibrillation is common in patients with Marfan syndrome and may lead to worse survival, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.