US adults in worse health than British counterparts at midlife

Published on October 3, 2024

American adults have significantly worse health in midlife compared to their British peers, especially in markers of cardiovascular health, according to a new study involving researchers from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
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