Your healthcare provider diagnoses coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis) based on your medical and family histories, a physical exam, and results from tests. If you have coronary artery disease, your healthcare provider may recommend other healthcare specialists.
The news is a little better for women, a little worse for men. Life expectancy for females is 81.2 years; for males, it's 76.4 years. That difference of 4.8 years is the same as in 2011.
The current U.S. life expectancy is 77.5 years. This number takes the current rates of mortality at each age and figures out where the average is. Deaths at young ages impact life expectancy averages much more than older deaths. If a person dies at 18, that is 59.5 years lost.