Reply #22: diabetes and poor lifestyle choices

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which result in heart disease, lung disease, liver disease, cancer, and diabetes with it's host of comorbidities such as heart disease, kidney disease, vascular disease, etc. We have two demographics here that are particularly susceptible to diabetes incidentally. In the UK, for example, approx. 4% of the population has diabetes. In America, over 8% of the population has diabetes. That kind of difference would easily contribute to a slight decrease in life expectancy for Americans. It would be interesting to break Americans down into demographic groups and then compare their life expectancies to the life expectancies of the various countries that are reported to have longer life expectancies than Americans as a whole.