Italian people's life expectancy has fallen for the first time, according to a report presented on Tuesday. Walter Ricciardi, Director of the Regional Health Observatory (Osservatorio sulla Salute delle Regioni) that prepared the report, said life expectancy was 80.1 years for men and 84.7 years for women in 2015. In 2014 life expectancy at birth was 80.3 years for men and 85 years for women. The Osservasalute report said the life-expectancy fall held for all of Italy's regions and blamed this on a lack of preventive medicine. The autonomous province of Trento is the part of Italy with the highest life expectancy - 81.3 years for men and 86.1 years for women. The region of Campania has the lowest - 78.5 years for men and 83.3 for women. The report said that, according to 2012 data, ischemic heart problems were the prime cause of death, provoking 12% of the total, followed by cerebrovascular problems (almost 10%). "The fall is spread out over all the regions," said Ricciardi.
"It's an alarm signal, although we will have to wait until next year to see if it is a trend. "We are at the bottom of the international rankings for prevention and this is a factor".
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