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SUBMITTER: Fenelon A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924175 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fenelon Andrew A Boudreaux Michel M
Demography 20191201 6
The past several decades have witnessed growing geographic disparities in life expectancy within the United States, yet the mortality experience of U.S. cities has received little attention. We examine changes in men's life expectancy at birth for the 25 largest U.S. cities from 1990 to 2015, using mortality data with city of residence identifiers. We reveal remarkable increases in life expectancy for several U.S. cities. Men's life expectancy increased by 13.7 years in San Francisco and Washing ...[more]