UCLA followed more than 9,800 LDS members in California from 1980 to 2004. LDS women had a life expectancy of 86.1 years, compared to 80.5 years for U.S. white females — a gap of 5.6 years.
This is part of the same cohort that researchers described as having "the lowest total death rates and longest life expectancies ever documented in a well-defined U.S. cohort." LDS men in the study showed an even larger gap at 9.8 additional years.
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