Latest Life expectancy Stories
life’sDHA™ and the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA) are partnering for the second year for Beautiful Minds: Finding Your Lifelong Potential, a national health education campaign designed to empower Americans to develop and maintain healthy, beautiful minds by incorporating key lifestyle factors known as the four dimensions of brain health – diet and nutrition, physical health, mental health and social well-being. Columbia, MD (PRWEB) September 22, 2011...
COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- life'sDHA(TM) and the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA) are partnering for the second year for Beautiful Minds: Finding Your Lifelong Potential, a national health education campaign designed to empower Americans to develop and maintain healthy, beautiful minds by incorporating key lifestyle factors known as the four dimensions of brain health - diet and nutrition, physical health, mental health and social well-being. Today the campaign...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) - Losing a child, may also mean lower life expectancy for parents. According to research, parents who lose their child during the first 12 months of life are at a significantly increased risk of an early death and the effect can last up to 25 years. Researches looked at a random 5 percent sample of United Kingdom death registrations from the year 1971 to 2006 that included parents whose child had survived beyond the first year of life; those whose child had died before...
European women live longer than men, because of both biological and behavioural advantages, but women's longer lives are not necessarily healthy lives. Studies commented on by Dr Vannuzzo at the ESC Congress 2011, show that due to increase in tobacco and alcohol consumption in women, the gender gap is decreasing. In the European Union (27 countries) the total number of deaths is roughly similar in men and women (in 2009: 2 416 786 men and 2 418 048 women), and trends are also similar, but...
Life expectancy is increasing all the time due to better quality of life and better health care. Despite this, increases in life expectancy can be patchy, with some sources reporting that the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor is getting bigger as time goes on. However, BioMed Central's open access journal International Journal for Equity in Health is pleased to report that the life expectancy for people living in deprived areas in Campinas, Brazil, is catching up, rising at three...
Semen quality may be an indicator of a man's overall health. (PRWEB) August 10, 2011 Is poor semen quality a new longevity risk factor? Normally, a doctor looking for a snapshot of a patient's health will ask about smoking, drinking, diet, and exercise and then measure cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, and weight or waist size. These facts and numbers already enable doctors to predict long-term health and longevity, but scientists are always looking for additional...
First large-scale study reinforces need to fund and expand simplified HIV programs that deliver significant, life-saving health benefits in resource-challenged settingsA landmark study by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows that patients in Africa receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for HIV can expect to live a near normal lifespan.The study, published today in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine, is the...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A landmark study by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows that patients in Africa receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for HIV can expect to live a near normal lifespan.The study is the first large-scale analysis of life expectancy outcomes in Africa for HIV patients on cART and shows significant variance between patient subgroups. Females have a significantly higher life expectancy than men,...
(Ivanhoe Newswire)"”Why is it that while people in Japan, Canada, and other nations are enjoying significant gains in life expectancy each year, most counties in the U.S are falling behind? According to a recent study, between 2000 and 2007, more than 80 percent of counties fell in standing against the average of the ten nations with the best life expectancies in the world.Fortunately researchers are beginning to find the answer to this dramatic decrease.According to Dr. Christopher Murray,...
The most current county-level analysis finds large disparities nationwide; women fare worse than men, and people in Appalachia, the Deep South, and Northern Texas live the shortest livesWhile people in Japan, Canada, and other nations are enjoying significant gains in life expectancy every year, most counties within the United States are falling behind, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.IHME researchers, in...
