Life expectancy for men and women in the United States has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study shows.
Earlier this week, the findings were published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, which found that the gap in life expectancy between men and women has grown to its largest since 1996, due to more men dying from COVID-19 and drug overdoses.
In 2021, which marked the last year with available federal data, according to the study, life expectancy for women was 79.3 years, compared to 73.5 years for men.
Overall, the study added, life expectancy for Americans has declined sequentially since 2019, from 78.8 years then to 77.0 years in 2020 and 76.1 years in 2021.
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According to a new study, women from the United States are now living nearly 6 years longer than men in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In the statement for The New York TimesDr. Brandon Yan, a resident physician at the University of California, San Francisco and lead author of the study, expressed concern about these findings.
“It was disturbing to see,” he told the publication. “We need to understand which groups in particular lose years of life expectancy so that interventions can be at least partially targeted to those groups.”
dr. Yan also offered an idea behind what he sees as the cause of the difference in life expectancy between men and women in the United States.
“All this points to a picture of deteriorating mental health everywhere, but especially among men,” he said times.
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