Posted on 12/28/2011 4:53:37 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Life expectancy for babies born in New York City in 2009 has reached an all-time high of 80.6 years, surpassing the national average and marking an increase of nearly three years since 2000, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday.
Mr. Bloomberg, speaking in the maternity ward at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, cited declines in deaths connected to HIV, heart disease and cancer as primary reasons for New Yorkers' longer lives. A 20% decline in homicides in the past decade and an all-time low number of traffic fatalities also contributed, the mayor said.
Mr. Bloomberg, who has made public health a cornerstone of his tenure leading the nation's most populous city, heralded longer life spans as a sign of his administration's success. The mayor persuaded the City Council in 2002 to pass legislation banning smoking in bars and restaurants, and he successfully led efforts to ban trans-fats in restaurants and reduce salt in packaged foods.
"Today newborn New Yorkers can expect to live longer, healthier lives than ever before, and also live longer than if they were born and lived in many other parts of America," Mr. Bloomberg said. "If you have friends and relatives that you deeply care about and they live elsewhere, on average, if they move to New York City, they will live longer."
According to data the city released Tuesday:
• Life expectancy for 40-year-olds in the city increased by 2.5 years (79.5 to 82) from 2000 to 2009, compared with a 1.2-year increase for the same age group nationwide.
• Life expectancy for 70-year-olds increased 1.5 years, compared with 0.7 years for the same group nationwide.
• Life expectancy for babies born in 2009 is nearly 2.5 years more than the most recently reported national rate of 78.2 years.
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Giving them more of an opportunity to irritate and annoy folks from outside NYC.
New Yorkers in the metropolitan area walk a lot.When you walk around NYC you will notice that people for the most part are relatively thin when compared to most of the country.
All hail Nurse Bloomberg!! He was right all along.
Salaam! Salaam! (renders obeisance)
Is it too late for him to throw his hat in the Presidential ring? He obviously posessess the secret to eternal life.
I guess it pays to keep slaves healthy.
My daughter who just moved to NYC from SF made the same exact observation. She said the only places in NYC where you see fat people are the tourist areas,
It sounds to me like these are New York statistics and I would trust them like I would trust the New York Times CBS polling stats. This is just contrary to common sense. About next we will get a repeat of global warming stats from the same source.
Health stats in NYC are pretty worthless, most people sick enough to need long term care move to zip codes outside the city boundaries and due to better nursing home and hospice care tend to live long enough that they transfer their legal residence address for various reasons, taxes, Medicare/Medicaid and other social safety net reasons, etc.
NYC’s mortality rate is boosted by NYC’s income tax rates, perversely.
Some years back whilst my B/L was in medical school they told him, IIRC:
In 1900 the average American made it to about age 50, now it is 75 a gain of 25 years.
20 plus years from modern PLUMBING!
3 plus years from modern Farming (nutrition).
1 year plus from modern Medicine!
I was there in October and on one day we walked 6 hours. Other days I walked because it was faster than trying to get a taxi. I saw plenty of old, thin people walking.
Yup. Between my everyday walking and living on the top floor of a five story walk-up for thirty years, I was able to keep pretty trim. Then in '02 at the age of 57 I moved to rural WV.....not so trim any more. :(
Living in the center of the best health care available on the planet? It’s no coincidence.
I was going to mention the tourists but I didn’t want to insult them.
I would put in a word for Mayor Giuliani's 90% decline in the murder rate.
It helps having hospitals within easy reach of everybody in the city. No twenty or thirty mile drive like in other parts of the country.
Should had stayed in the Big Apple.
Riiiiiiiight.
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