Life Expectancy for Women *Stagnant* in Southern States
What: Despite medical advances, life expectancy for women in Kentucky and West Virginia increased just one year in a century, compared to 11 years nationally.
Key Line: “In some Southern states, they improved less than two years in the framework of all of the medical advances.”
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