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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 This disparity has been widening for decades. Around 1970, urban life expectancy was 70.9 years, compared with 70.5