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The US Probably Had Its Third Straight Year of Lowered Life Expectancy in 2017

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EXCERPT: The US likely experienced its third consecutive year of a sagging life expectancy in 2017, based on preliminary data published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increased deaths from suicide and drug overdose probably played a role in the decline. If final calculations do show that life expectancy declined again in 2017, it would be the first three-year stretch of reduced life expectancy seen in the US since the late 1910s, a period that coincided with the worst flu pandemic in recorded history. [...] There’s still some missing information about these deaths, because it takes time to finalize the causes of deaths [...] So we don’t know for sure whether deaths from drug overdoses and suicides have risen over the full year. But data from earlier quarters of 2017 did find noticeable increases in deaths from these causes.

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