1.   Another study, using the same data but a different measuring gauge, puts the mortality gap wider still.

2.   But National Cancer Institute researchers, who called attention to the mortality gap in their study, caution that skin color probably has little to do with it.

3.   In this securely employed population, the mortality gap between senior administrators and clerical workers is even greater than the health divide in the general population.

4.   The male-female mortality gap starts in the womb, holds into very old age and has widened in recent decades.

5.   The racial mortality gap, meanwhile, is widening.