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  • Where you live linked to life expectancy

    09/11/2006 7:46:12 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 24 replies · 1,049+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/11/06 | Lauren Neegaard - ap
    WASHINGTON - Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation's health disparities, differences so stark that a report issued Monday contends it's as if there are eight separate Americas instead of one. Asian-American women living in Bergen County, N.J., lead the nation in longevity, typically reaching their 91st birthdays. Worst off are American Indian men in swaths of South Dakota, who die around age 58 — three decades sooner. Millions of the worst-off Americans have life expectancies typical of developing countries, concluded Dr. Christopher Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health. Asian-American...