August 16, 2021 | News | Blog Post on New Publication

How Has Cardiovascular Disease Contributed to the Rural–Urban Life Expectancy Gap?

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In the United States, rural residents do not live as long as their urban counterparts. This disparity has been widening for decades. In their paper recently published in the IJE, Leah Abrams, Mikko Myrskylä and Neil Mehta found that the gap in life expectancy would be even wider today if declines in cardiovascular disease mortality had not slowed around 2010.

Read more about the paper in Leah Abram's summary in the IJE Blog.

Original Publication

Abrams, L.R., Myrskylä, M., Mehta, N.K.: The growing rural–urban divide in US life expectancy: contribution of cardiovascular disease and other major causes of death. International Journal of Epidemiology (2021) DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab158