{"id":8716,"date":"2023-11-16T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/u-s-women-now-live-6-years-longer-than-men-and-a-lack-of-male-targeted-mental-health-care-might-be-to-blame\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:20:47","slug":"u-s-women-now-live-6-years-longer-than-men-and-a-lack-of-male-targeted-mental-health-care-might-be-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=8716","title":{"rendered":"U.S. women now live 6 years longer than men\u2014and a lack of male-targeted mental health care might be to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The gap in life expectancy<\/a> between U.S. women and men widened to nearly six years in 2021, reaching a near two-decade high due to COVID mortality and \u201ctwin crises of deaths from despair<\/a> and firearm violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s according to a research letter<\/a> published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, <\/em>authored by medical professionals at Harvard University, Boston University, the University of California, and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

Researchers examined mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics and found that in pre-pandemic years, from 2010 to 2019, the life expectancy gap between women\u2014who have lived longer than men for more than a century\u2014and men increased by roughly two and a half months largely due to the following factors:<\/p>\n

From 2019 through 2021, however\u2014during the pandemic\u2014that gap more than tripled to seven and a half months, with women continuing to outlive men. The main reasons:<\/p>\n