By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 14:55 EST, 5 March 2013 | UPDATED: 14:55 EST, 5 March 2013 A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain. The latest research found that women age 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation's counties - many of them rural and in the South and West. Curiously, for men, life expectancy has held steady or improved in nearly all counties. The study is the latest to spot this pattern, especially among disadvantaged white women.
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New study released by journal Health Affairs says that while life expectancy is climbing for educated women, it is falling for those without education
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Also said deaths are preventable and are caused by obesity, smoking, and changeable habits
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