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This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2013, a research team comprised of some of the nation s top epidemiologists and demographers compared the health of Americans with the health of people in other high-income nations. They summarized their findings in the report s title: U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. Compared to 16 other nations, the U.S. ranked dead last in life expectancy for males and second-to-last for females. Beyond that, the nation ranked at or near the bottom in nine broad areas, including injuries and homicides, drug-related deaths, heart disease, and diabetes. Lung disease was both more common and more deadly in the U.S. than in most of the comparison countries, while older adults were more likely to have arthritis than people in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan. The U.S. surpassed all other nations in its rate of infant death. It had the highest rate of new AIDS cases. American young people were more likely than

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