Study Finds Premature Death Rates Diverge in the United States by Race and Ethnicity
, by DCEG Staff
Premature death rates have declined in the United States among Hispanic, Black, and Asian/Pacific Islander (APIs) adults—in line with trends in Canada and the United Kingdom—but increased among White and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/ANs) adults, according to a comprehensive study of premature death rates for the entire U.S. population from 1999 to 2014. This divergence was reported by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and colleagues at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), both part of the National Institutes of Health, and the University of New Mexico College of Nursing. The findings appeared January 25, 2017, in The Lancet.
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Reference: Shiels MS, Chernyavskiy P, Anderson WF, et al. PubMed Abstract: Trends in premature mortality in the USA by sex, race, and ethnicity from 1999 to 2014: An analysis of death certificate data. The Lancet 2017.
