How has cardiovascular disease contributed to the rural–urban life expectancy gap?
International Journal of Epidemiology Blog
AUGUST 12, 2021
In our research recently published in the IJE, we found that the gap in life expectancy would be even wider today if declines in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality had not dramatically slowed around 2010. However, around 2010, this decline stagnated. Urban life expectancy increased 1.19 years more in women and 0.86 years for men).
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