Editing Eagle County, Colorado (section)

==Life expectancy==

According to a report in ''[[JAMA]]'', residents of Eagle County had a life expectancy from birth of 85.94 years in 2014, the third-longest in the United States.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dwyer-Lindgren|first=Laura|date=May 8, 2017|title=Inequalities in Life Expectancy Among US Counties, 1980 to 2014|url= |journal=JAMA Internal Medicine|doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0918|pmc=5543324|pmid=28492829|volume=177|issue=7|pages=1003–1011}}</ref> Men live 84.4 years on the average and women live 87.6 years.<ref>"County Profile: Summit County Colorado,"  http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/county_profiles/US/2015/County_Report_Eagle_County_Colorado.pdf, accessed 2 Aug 2017</ref> Two contiguous counties, [[Summit County, Colorado|Summit]] and [[Pitkin County|Pitkin]] counties, rank numbers one and two in the nation in life expectancy.

Factors contributing to the high life expectancy of the three Colorado counties are "high education, high income, high access to medical care, the people are physically active, obesity is lower than anywhere else{{snd}}so you're doing it right." said Ali Mokdad, one of the study's co-authors.<ref>Achenbach, Joel, "U.S. life expectancy varies more than 20 years from county to county," ''Washington Post'', May 8, 2017</ref>