Hacker News with Generative AI: Life Expectancy

Americans die earlier at all wealth levels, even if wealth buys more years (theconversation.com)
Americans at all wealth levels are more likely to die sooner than their European counterparts, with even the richest U.S. citizens living shorter lives than northern and western Europeans. That is the key finding of our new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Health, Inequality, United States, Europe, Life Expectancy
39 points by rntn 17 days ago | 14 comments
Body wasn't built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (2009) (wordpress.com)
What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year?  Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100?  1 in 10,000?  Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now.
Human Mortality, Statistics, Life Expectancy, Aging
15 points by Tomte 39 days ago | 0 comments
Woman who lived to age 117 had genes keeping her cells 'younger', study shows (theguardian.com)
The US-born woman who was the world’s oldest living person before she died in Spain last August at age 117 once attributed her longevity to “luck and good genetics”. And, evidently, Maria Branyas Morera was right.
Genetics, Longevity, Science, Health, Life Expectancy
10 points by dithered_djinn 43 days ago | 0 comments
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds (theguardian.com)
Smokers are being urged to kick the habit for 2025 after a fresh assessment of the harms of cigarettes found they shorten life expectancy even more than doctors thought.
Health, Smoking, Life Expectancy, Research
38 points by isaacfrond 117 days ago | 85 comments
Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country (arstechnica.com)
The gap of time between how long Americans live and how much of that time is spent in good health only grew wider in the last two decades, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.
Health, United States, Public Health, Life Expectancy
27 points by m463 132 days ago | 35 comments
US life expectancy, currently 49th, expected to fall to 66th by 2050 (cnn.com)
Life Expectancy, Demographics, Health, United States, Global Trends
19 points by hilux 141 days ago | 17 comments
Memento Movi (wackyneighbor.com)
Enter your date of birth, your life expectancy, and choose a film to see your progress.
Life Expectancy, Interactive Websites, Movies, Personalization
53 points by wallflower 151 days ago | 16 comments
Most of today's children are unlikely to live to 100, analysis says (cnn.com)
Life Expectancy, Demographics, Health, Statistics, Analysis
4 points by peutetre 200 days ago | 0 comments
Implausibility of life extension in humans in the twenty-first century (nature.com)
Over the course of the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine.
Life Expectancy, Health, Science, Longevity
9 points by rntn 201 days ago | 3 comments
It's getting harder to die (plough.com)
Death, Mortality, Life Expectancy, Health
242 points by baud147258 305 days ago | 249 comments