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Small towns offer clues to life expectancy drop

Consumer Corner November 5, 2018 WebMD 0

Americans living in adjacent counties and even census tracts are finding different health outcomes — meaning that where you live can determine how long... Small towns offer clues to life expectancy drop

Americans living in adjacent counties and even census tracts are finding different health outcomes — meaning that where you live can determine how long you might live. Several counties with the largest declines are clustered in eastern Kentucky –– the nucleus of the national opioid epidemic, which has decimated many of those counties.


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