The New York Times has the details on a new study that suggests what the paper called "disturbingly sharp drops" in the life expectancy of white Americans without a high school diploma.
A handful of recent studies have identified the trend of declining life expectancies of those Americans with the least education, but this new one is particularly depressing for whites in that demographic, who saw their average life expectancy fall by four years between 1990 and 2008.
Within the white subset, women actually fared the worst, with a five-year drop in life expectancy compared to a three-year drop for their male counterparts. The decline for females was so bad, in fact, that it had at least one health expert comparing it to the seven-year drop Russian men saw in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse.
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