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Most research on marriage and health has focused on heterosexual couples, and more work is needed to clarify the health effects on same-sex marriage. [1] Simply being married, as well as the quality of one's marriage, has been linked to diverse measures of health.
The "healthspan-lifespan gap" was largest in the U.S., as Americans live in poor health for an average of 12.4 years, compared to 10.9 years in 2000.
The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 77.5 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Americans outlive their health spans by 12.4 years, the study found.
The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing it to ...
From 2019 to 2021, U.S. life expectancy dropped from 78.8 years to 7 6.4. Covid deaths fell significantly last year: Whereas Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, it was the 10th in ...
American marriage and family life are divided more today than it ever has been. "Less than half of poor Americans age 18 to 55 ( just 26 percent) and 39 percent of working-class Americans are currently married, compared to more than half (56 percent) of middle- and upper-class Americans."
Same-sex marriage has been linked with increases in life expectancy compared to unmarried same-sex couples. [15] In 2013, Frisch also carried out another study which found excess mortality in homosexual men had shrunk further. [15] [16] [17] It linked same-sex marriage with increases in life expectancy. [15]
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