Why Life Expectancy in United States is down again ?

A new analysis of life expectancy in the world’s richest large country paints a  black picture.

TWO DATA points, it is often said, do not make a trend. Researchers studying America’s dismal life expectancy now have three. After climbing gradually over the past half-century, life expectancy in America reached a plateau in 2010 and then fell for three consecutive years from 2015 to zoi7, the latest for which data are available. An American baby born today can expect to live 78.6 years, on average, down from 78.9 in 2014. A new paper by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, attempts to explain why.