The Extremes

Want to get old?

Live in Clear Creek County - or Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park or Summit county.
Those seven Colorado counties, along with two Iowa counties and Montgomery County, Md., have the nation's longest life expectancies - 81.3 years - according to a Harvard University researcher.

Fifteen Colorado counties scored in the top 50 in Dr. Christopher Murray's life-span and health-disparities study, which appears in the September issue of the journal PloS Medicine.




United States Counties with the nation's longest life expectancy:

Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park and Summit counties, Colo.;
Montgomery, Md.; Lyon and Sioux, Iowa

Areas with the shortest:

Six counties in South Dakota; Baltimore City, Md.; Petersburg, Va.; Marlboro, S.C.; Phillips, Ark.
Sources: Harvard University Initiative for Global Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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