Estimated life expectancy of whites and non-Hispanic blacks living in the U.S. aged 25 years dropped between 2010 and 2017. However, expected life-expectancy rose among those in the same cohort with a college education and decreased among those who did not have a 4-year college degree.
The findings were recently published in JAMA.
“To reduce social inequalities in mortality, it is important to understand how specific causes of death have contributed to increasing educational differences in adult life
expectancy in recent years,” Isaac Sasson, PhD, of the department of sociology and
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