Recent Trends in Sex Mortality Differentials in the United States

摘要: Abstract Since 1920, American men, to an increasing degree, have experienced higher levels of mortality than women for virtually all causes death at almost every age. Recently, several authors asserted that there is evidence a change in these trends, caused primarily by rises the female mortality. Using age-adjusted rates and data most recent years available (1960–1974), this paper shows are either stable or falling, sex differential except lung cancer increasing.