by Robin Foster Loneliness can be a killer, but it can be particularly deadly for obese people, who are markedly more likely to experience social isolation. Fortunately, a new study shows that addressing it may lower the risk of health complications and early death for these folks. “To date, dietary and lifestyle factors are the...
Last Updated: Mar 29, 2023, 06:42 PM IST iStockModerately-intense physical activity is known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Walking just 8,000 steps once or twice a week can reduce your mortality risk. A study released on Tuesday shared that including walking in your daily regime can significantly reduce the risk of early...
by Noah Brown, Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Social factors affect an individual’s future health, but there’s currently no practical way to summarize their prognostic impact. Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of California, San Francisco recently took a comprehensive inventory of older adults’ social attributes and distilled it into a...
HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Boston, MA – Elderly people living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD)—which involves extraction methods including directional (non-vertical) drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—are at higher risk of early death compared with elderly individuals who don’t live near such operations, according to a large...
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have investigated how a newly developed algorithm in connection with gene analysis can be used to improve the possibilities of preventing premature vascular disease and death in individuals with the hereditary lipid disorder, familial hypercholesterolemia. The findings, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, show how the...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, March 11, 2021 — Pictures of the retina may someday provide early warning signs that a person is at an increased risk of stroke and dementia, making it possible to take preventive measures, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2021. The virtual meeting is March 17-19, 2021...
Adhering to an anti-inflammatory diet was associated with lower risks of dying from any cause, dying from cardiovascular causes, and dying from cancer in a recent Journal of Internal Medicine study. In the study of 68,273 Swedish men and women aged 45 to 83 years who were followed for 16 years, participants who most closely followed an...
