To mark World Heart Day and the launch of the first European Screening Week, the European Commission has adopted a proposal for a Council Recommendation on cardiovascular health screening. Its aim is to safeguard the health of European citizens by improving early detection and screening, and ultimately reducing premature deaths from cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular diseases […]
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Higher life expectancy at birth for women in all EU regions
In 2022, life expectancy at birth in the EU for women (83.3 years) was 5.4 years higher than for men (77.9 years). This gender gap in favour of women persisted in all of the regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) for which data are available. Life expectancy at birth for women peaked in […]
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