Voters worried about their health, along with high local mortality rates could have helped Donald Trump land in the White House, according to a new study.
The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that declining health and rising death rates in rural Republican enclaves helped tilt the 2016 election toward Trump.
“Although life expectancy is increasing in many parts of the country, especially in urban areas, we're not seeing nearly the same gains in rural and middle America,” said Dr. Lee Goldman, the study leader and chief executive of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
