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the statisticians over at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figured out how to estimate the life expectancy of Hispanics in this country. [...]

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As recently as 1983, babies born with Down syndrome had a life expectancy of only 25 years. According to the makers of this film, it is now 60 years and [...]

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Hispanics beat the life expectancy for whites at 78 years and blacks for 73 years. On average, Hispanics outlive whites by 2.5 years and blacks by 7.7 years [...]

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The United States is falling sharply behind in worldwide rankings of life expectancy, and shortcomings in the US health care system may be to blame, [...]

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Researchers say the longer life expectancy is contrary to the Hispanic population's lower socioeconomic status. The study shows that compared to the general [...]

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Life expectancy for a Hispanic baby at birth is nearly 81 years, compared with 78 years for non-Hispanic white babies and slightly less than 73 years for [...]

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A Hispanic born in 2006 could expect to live about 80 years and seven months. Life expectancy for a white person is about 78, and just shy of 73 for a black [...]

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Life expectancy for Hispanic immigrants is about 80, compared to 78 for whites and 73 for blacks, the report found. Unfortunately, Hispanic longevity drops [...]

Life expectancy at birth in the UK has reached its highest level on record for both males and females. A newborn baby boy could expect to live 77.7 years [...]

Here we present the 2006 period life table for the Social Security area population. For this table, the period life expectancy at a given age represents the [...]

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The authors, Peter A. Muennig and Sheryl Gilad, both professors at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, point out that in 1950, the U.S. ranked fifth in female life expectancy; since then we've fallen to 46th. [...]

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The startling report released Wednesday is the strongest evidence yet of the “Hispanic paradox” - long life expectancy for a population that has a large share of poor, undereducated members. A leading theory is that Hispanics who manage [...]

Americans ranks 49th in life expectancy worldwide, putting it lower than a dozen other developed nations. However, the researchers who determined this report that obesity, traffic accidents and a high murder rate may not be the main [...]

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Researchers have known for years that life expectancy in Japan is significantly higher than in many Western countries, including the United States and Canada. In fact, a recent study concluded that while average life expectancy for a [...]

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“Patients living with advanced malignancies and their doctors should engage in a realistic conversation about the risks and benefits associated with cancer screening in [the] face of a severely limited life expectancy,” she added. [...]

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ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. Hispanics can expect to outlive whites by more than two years and blacks by more than seven, government researchers say in a startling report that is the first to calculate Hispanic life expectancy in this country. [...]

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ATLANTA — U.S. Hispanics can expect to outlive whites by more than two years and blacks by more than seven, government researchers say in a startling report that is the first to calculate Hispanic life expectancy in this country. [...]

For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services collected national life expectancy data for the Hispanic population and what they found is that Hispanics live longer than whites and blacks, USA Today reports. [...]

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ATLANTA -- US Hispanics can expect to outlive whites by more than two years and blacks by more than seven, government researchers say in a startling report that is the first to calculate Hispanic life expectancy in this country. [...]