{"id":233383,"date":"2026-03-16T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/study-reveals-a-turning-point-in-us-life-expectancy"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:06:21","slug":"study-reveals-a-turning-point-in-us-life-expectancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/study-reveals-a-turning-point-in-us-life-expectancy","title":{"rendered":"Study Reveals a \u2018Turning Point\u2019 in US Life Expectancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-a-turning-point-in-us-life-expectancy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A worrying health pattern for some of the Gen X and Millennial crowd has been highlighted by a new study: people born between 1970 and 1985 are experiencing worse mortality rates than the generations before them, across multiple causes.<\/p>\n<p>The international team of researchers analyzed cause-of-death records over more than 40 years, between 1979 and 2023, to examine changes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/record-breaking-human-lifespans-predicted-by-the-year-2060-heres-why\">in life expectancy<\/a> and the underlying reasons that could be shaping it.<\/p>\n<p>What stands out is that being born in the 1950s \u2013 the middle of the Baby Boomer generation \u2013 marks a turning point: from steadily decreasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/us-cancer-survival-has-reached-a-milestone-high-of-70\">mortality rates<\/a> and better health outcomes compared with earlier groups, to the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A worrying health pattern for some of the Gen X and Millennial crowd has been highlighted by a new study: people born between 1970 and 1985 are experiencing worse mortality rates than the generations before them, across multiple causes. The international team of researchers analyzed cause-of-death records over more than 40 years, between 1979 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}