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How has cardiovascular disease contributed to the rural–urban life expectancy gap?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Leah Abrams In the United States, rural residents do not live as long as their urban counterparts. in rural areas, but by 2005–2009, the difference was greater (78.8 However, little was known about the role of CVD mortality trends in recent rural–urban life expectancy differences. years, compared with 70.5