Have we turned a corner? After four years of declines, life expectancy in the United States increased in 2018, health officials announced.
According to Dr. Howard Koh, a professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston,"After years of plateauing and declining U.S. life expectancy, this one-year uptick is certainly welcome news."
"It's good news U.S. life expectancy increased for one year, interrupting its fall over the past three years, but the overall picture remains bleak," said Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus and senior advisor at the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, in Richmond.
The increase in life expectancy between 2017 and 2018 is statistically significant, but time will tell whether it holds, he added. A similar increase occurred between 2013 and 2014 before falling the following year.Among the 10 leading causes of death, only deaths from suicide and flu-related pneumonia rose.
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