BMJ 2006;332:1047 (6 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7549.1047
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Middle aged white people are healthier in England than US
Janice Hopkins Tanne
New York
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People aged 55 to 64 in England are healthier than their counter-parts in the United States, a new study shows. This is despite the fact that the US spends $5274 (£2900; 
4193) per person on medical care each year and the United Kingdom as a whole spends only $2164.
The disparity between the health of middle aged white English and American people found is so great, the study found, that the prevalence of diabetes and heart disease among Americans of the highest socioeconomic status is similar to that among the lowest status English people.
The study's authors, Michael Marmot and colleagues at University College London, found that middle aged white English people had lower rates of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, lung disease, and cancer than middle aged white Americans (JAMA 2006;295: 2037-45
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