Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the US, 2010-2021

Brandon W Yan; Elizabeth Arias; Alan C Geller; Donald R Miller; Kenneth D Kochanek; Howard K Koh

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6041

Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the US, 2010-2021

JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Jan 1;184(1):108-110. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6041.

Authors

Brandon W Yan^{1

2}, Elizabeth Arias³, Alan C Geller², Donald R Miller⁴, Kenneth D Kochanek³, Howard K Koh²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco.
² Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland.
⁴ Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 37955927
PMCID: PMC10644244 (available on 2024-11-13)
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6041

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study systematically examines the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021.

MeSH terms

Cause of Death
Humans
Life Expectancy*
Sex Factors