Rural areas are increasingly more vulnerable to preventable deaths than cities, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Not only are the 46 million U.S. rural dwellers older, poorer, more isolated from medical facilities, and more likely to be underinsured, they’re also falling behind cities in limiting smoking, high blood pressure, obesity, and physical inactivity, Thursday’s study found.

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