{"id":35808,"date":"2024-12-11T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35808"},"modified":"2024-12-11T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T03:34:47","slug":"americans-spend-more-time-living-with-diseases-than-rest-of-world-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35808","title":{"rendered":"Americans spend more time living with diseases than rest of world, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">American Medical Association finds people in US are sick for an average of 12.4 years, an increase from figure in 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Americans spend more time living with diseases than people from other countries, according to a new study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the American Medical Association&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2827753\">published<\/a>&nbsp;its latest findings, revealing that Americans live with diseases for an average of 12.4 years. Mental and substance-use disorders, as well as musculoskeletal diseases, are main contributors to the years lived with disability in the US, per the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Women in the US exhibited a 2.6-year higher so-called healthspan-lifespan gap (representing the number of years spent sick) than men, increasing from 12.2 to 13.7 years or 32% beyond the global mean for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The latest overall healthspan-lifespan gap in the US marks an increase from 10.9 years in 2000 to 12.4 years in 2024, resulting in a 29% higher gap than the global mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Globally, the healthspan-lifespan gap has widened over the last 20 years, extending to 9.6 years from 8.5 years in 2000 \u2013 a 13% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Following the US in the largest healthspan-lifespan gaps were Australia at 12.1 years, New Zealand at 11.8 years, the UK and Northern Ireland at 11.3 years and Norway at 11.2 years. By contrast, the smallest healthspan-lifespan gaps were seen in Lesotho at 6.5 years, Central African Republic at 6.7 years, Somalia and Kiribati at 6.8 years and and Micronesia at 7 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Describing the results, the study\u2019s authors, Armin Garmany and Andre Terzic, said: \u201cThese results underscore that around the world, while people live longer, they live a greater number of years burdened by disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The study added that in line with global trends, the gap in the US coincided with a disproportionate growth in life expectancy v health-adjusted life expectancy. In the US, life expectancy increased from 79.2 to 80.7 years in women, and from 74.1 to 76.3 years in men, the study revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/11\/americans-living-with-diseases-health-study\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Medical Association finds people in US are sick for an average of 12.4 years, an increase from figure in 2000 Americans spend more time living with diseases than people from other countries, according to a new study. 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