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Off Topic Forums => Off Topic Forum => Topic started by: OneTampa on June 15, 2011, 08:24:15 pm

Title: Interesting Article on Fairly Recent Study on Life Expectancy...
Post by: OneTampa on June 15, 2011, 08:24:15 pm

Here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/life-expectancy-in-the-us-varies-widely-by-region-and-in-some-places-is-decreasing/2011/06/13/AGdHuZVH_story.html

Excerpts:

General Concept

"...Life expectancy is an abstract concept that summarizes the health and threats to longevity that exist at a particular moment in history. It is not an actual measure of how long people are living..."

HIV

"...Among the places with the biggest increases in life expectancy in the last two decades is New York City. The arrival of triple-drug antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection, along with dramatic declines in homicide and infant mortality, caused great gains in the late 1990s..."