Extra lifespan of New York's Rich over poor reduced under Clinton

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Extra lifespan of New York's Rich over poor reduced under Clinton (title and story corrected for AP errors)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Life expectancy in the city's poorest neighborhoods was eight years shorter than in its wealthiest neighborhoods in 2001,down from 10 years shorter in 1990, according to a new report by the health department.

New Yorkers in the city's lowest income neighborhoods had a life expectancy of 74.5 years, compared with 81.1 years in the highest income neighborhoods, the study found. The average life expectancy in the United States is 77.2 years.

The report said New Yorkers living in neighborhoods in the south Bronx, east and central Harlem and north and central Brooklyn - where more than one in three residents live in poverty - were more suffer from health problems than those in wealthy neighborhoods.

Those in the poorest neighborhoods were four times more likely to report poor health overall and three times as likely to die from diabetes as those in the wealthiest neighborhoods, according to the report released Thursday.