Wondering how long one's life will last is a universal thought. The average life expectancy in the United States is 81.4 years for women and 75.8 years for men, according to the Centers for Disease ...

People with diabetes face a threefold to sixfold increased risk for sudden cardiac death and a shorter life expectancy than the general population, and this risk is especially noticeable among younger ...

Oral frailty can shorten your life expectancy, so those dreaded visits, drills and all, really are for your own good.

Humans are living 20 years longer than they were in 1950, according to new research with all 204 countries and territories studied reporting declines in their mortality rates since then. But vast ...

A person's age is one of the best predictors of how much longer they are likely to live. This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is ...

They call New York City residents "hard" for a reason. But we're getting more time to shake it off. Stats released by the NYC Health Department Tuesday show citywide life expectancy at birth rose to ...

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