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2. Sickle cell disease - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, about one out of 365 African-American children and one in every 16,300 Hispanic-American children have sickle cell anaemia. [147] The life expectancy for men with SCD is approximately 42 years of age while women live approximately six years longer. [148] An additional 2 million are carriers of the sickle cell trait. [149]

3. List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy

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   The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing it to ...

4. Evolutionary baggage - Wikipedia

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   Having a sickle-cell allele does limit the life expectancy of a person, however, the presence of sickle-cell genes reduces the detrimental effects of malaria should it be contracted. Natural selection allowed for the spreading of the sickle-cell gene in areas of high numbers of mosquitoes carrying malaria; those that weren't as susceptible to ...

5. US life expectancy rose last year to highest levels since ...

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   Life expectancy at birth was 78.4 years for the total U.S. population in 2023, according to the report released Thursday, an increase of nearly a full year from 77.5 years in 2022. The report ...

6. U.S. life expectancy rose significantly last year, hitting ...

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   From 2019 to 2021, U.S. life expectancy dropped from 78.8 years to 7 6.4. Covid deaths fell significantly last year: Whereas Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, it was the 10th in ...

7. Column: America's decline in life expectancy speaks volumes ...

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   COVID-19 is the most obvious and convenient culprit, both for the absolute decline in life expectancy and the divergence between the experiences of the U.S. and its economic peers.