Reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics have found that life expectancy in the United States has risen for the first time in four years, according to CNN.
While the gain was small, rising from a life expectancy of 78.6 years in 2017 to 78.7 years in 2018, researchers are able to correlate this increase with a decrease in certain causes of death, such as drug overdoses and cancer.
Drug overdoses fell from 70,237 deaths in 2017 to 67,367 in 2018, a decrease of 4.1 percent. Study author Kenneth Kochanek, a researcher at the NCHS in Maryland, believes that the decrease in drug overdose deaths may have something to do with the increase in overall life expectancy. He also points to a decrease in cancer deaths as another potential cause.
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