U.S. Diabetes-Free Life Expectancy on the Decline

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Americans are living longer ? but not healthier ? lives, researchers have found.

While average life expectancy is now higher than ever, the number of years Americans can expect to live without type 2 diabetes is decreasing. A prolonged period of morbidity is more likely to characterize people?s later years now than it was in the 1980s.

http://www.familypracticenews.com/n...ife-expectancy-on-the-decline/917c31b2b7.html
 
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