Study shows declining life span for some US women

March 7, 2013 by Mike Stobbe

NEW YORK (AP) — A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can’t explain.

The latest research found that women age 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation’s counties — many of them rural and in the South and West. Curiously, for men, life expectancy has held steady or improved in nearly all counties. Click here to read…

Originally Posted at LifeHealthPro on March 5th 2013 by Mike Stobbe.