Longevity Advantage Shrinking

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WASHINGTON - Women, take care: After more than a century of living longer than men, your advantage is starting to shrink. Men are gaining on you.

That's the conclusion of scientists who study the puzzling question of why females generally outlive males in the United States and other advanced nations.

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Longevity Advantage Shrinking

"Women live longer than men for reasons that are still not completely understood," said Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging in Washington.

But it's certainly changing: A female born in 1975 could expect to live...

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