{"id":26590,"date":"2026-01-29T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/119643-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:57:00","slug":"119643-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=26590","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Life Expectancy Hit an All-Time High in 2024, CDC Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clf1.medpagetoday.com\/media\/images\/119xxx\/119643.jpg\" \/> (MedPage Today) &#8212; U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024  &#8212;  the highest mark in American history.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates from all the nation&#8217;s top killers, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/publichealth\/119643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.medpagetoday.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPage Today) &#8212; U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 &#8212; the highest mark in American history. It&#8217;s the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates from all the nation&#8217;s top killers, including&#8230; Source: www.medpagetoday.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[17402,6407,16230,1480,13960,2473,10949],"class_list":["post-26590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-alltime","tag-cdc","tag-expectancy","tag-high","tag-hit","tag-life","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}