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US Life Expectancy Reaches New HighOctober 11, 2001 The CDC reported Wednesday that Americans are surviving longer, and more are dying of diseases associated with old age. American life expectancy reached a new high of 76.9 years, up from 76.7 years in 1999, mostly because fewer people are dying early from heart disease and cancer. Death rates from murder, suicide, accidents, stroke, diabetes, chronic lower respiratory diseases, chronic liver disease and AIDS were also down last year, the report said. More and more Americans are lucky enough to die of old age, said Ari Minino, a demographer at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, who helped write the report. Heart disease (which claimed more than 700,000 American lives last year) and cancer (which claimed more than 550,000) are still the biggest killers of Americans. Reuters 10.10.01; Maggie Fox  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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