{"id":20675,"date":"2022-12-22T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20675"},"modified":"2022-12-22T08:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:56:56","slug":"american-life-expectancy-is-now-at-its-lowest-in-nearly-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20675","title":{"rendered":"American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Yuki Noguchi for NPR on December 22, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months last year, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/DB456_457.pdf\">new data<\/a>\u00a0from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/12\/22\/1144864971\/american-life-expectancy-is-now-at-its-lowest-in-nearly-two-decades\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yuki Noguchi for NPR on December 22, 2022 The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[75,74,94],"class_list":["post-20675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","tag-covid-19","tag-life-expectancy","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20676,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions\/20676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}