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Published online 2 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060501-3
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Americans far sicker than English
Researchers struggle to explain trans-Atlantic divide in health.
Middle-aged Americans are in much worse health than their English counterparts, suggests a trans-Atlantic comparison, and scientists are at a loss to explain why.
The new study, which compared the health of white, 55 to 64-year-olds in the two countries, found that diabetes is twice as common in the United States compared with England, cancer 70% more prevalent and heart disease more than 50% more widespread.
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