Life expectancy of U.S. women slips in some regions
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 02:30
in Health & Medicine
The backsliding for women began before 1997, but researchers find it has accelerated in the last decade. Experts say smoking and obesity are partly to blame.Women in large swaths of the U.S. are dying younger than they were a generation ago, reversing nearly a century of progress in public health and underscoring the rising toll of smoking and record obesity.