The new research, published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that waist - to - hip ratio was a better predictor of whether people would
die over the course of the study, compared to BMI.
When compared with people who read none at all, those who read books for up to three and a half hours per week were 17 percent less likely to
die over the course of the study.
Not exact matches
Among them, a 2006 American Journal
of Medicine
study compared the reported daily sodium intakes
of 78 million Americans to their risk
of dying from heart disease
over the
course of 14 years.
In a 2011
study published in JAMA The Journal
of the American Medical Association, Stolarz - Skrzypek and her colleagues compared the urinary sodium levels
of 3,681 people with their risk
of dying over the
course of eight years.
Over the
course of the
study, 5,355
of the participants
died.
Each 11 - pound decrease in grip strength
over the
course of the
study was linked to a 16 % higher risk
of dying from any cause, a 17 % higher risk
of dying from heart disease, a 9 % higher risk
of stroke, and a 7 % higher risk
of heart attack.
Among them, a 2006 American Journal
of Medicine
study compared the reported daily sodium intakes
of 78 million Americans to their risk
of dying from heart disease
over the
course of 14 years.