(HealthDay)—Life expectancy for the U.S. inhabitants elevated in 2019, whereas the speed of drug overdose deaths elevated from 2018 to 2019, based on two December information briefs printed by the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics.

Kenneth D. Kochanek, from the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues used information from the Nationwide Important Statistics System to look at life expectancy in the USA. The researchers discovered that life expectancy was 78.8 years for the U.S. inhabitants in 2019, a rise of 0.1 yr from 2018. There was a 1.2 % lower within the age-adjusted demise fee from 2018 to 2019, from 723.6 to 715.2 deaths per 100,000 commonplace inhabitants.

Holly Hedegaard, M.D., additionally from the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics, and colleagues used information from the Nationwide Important Statistics System to replace statistics on deaths from drug overdoses. The researchers noticed a rise within the age-adjusted fee of drug overdose deaths from 2018 to 2019, from 20.7 to 21.6 per 100,000. The very best fee of drug overdose deaths was seen for adults aged 35 to 44 years in 2019 (40.5 per 100,000). In contrast with 2013 to 2017, from 2017 via 2019, the common annual enhance within the fee of drug overdose deaths involving artificial opioids aside from methadone was decrease (9 versus 75 % per yr).

“From 1999 via 2019, charges elevated for all teams aged 15 and over, though the patterns of enhance diversified by age group,” Hedegaard and colleagues write.