Sentences with phrase «life expectancy which»

They charge more premium dollars to the fact that tobacco use in any shape or form is simply very bad for your health and can easily reduce your life expectancy which in turn raises the risk of insuring your life.

They greatly reduce the life expectancy which is why smokers always pay more for life insurance.

Monbiot: I think that if the lead smelters that I saw in Romania were less free and more regulated, then the people living around them would be more free of the horrible diseases and shortened life expectancy which they currently face.

«This means following through on the current national health inequalities target on infant mortality and life expectancy which runs to the end of 2011 acknowledges the challenge posed by a social gradient - the lower a person's social position, the worse his or her health.»

First of all, Japan is not an ageing society due to their birth rate (which is actually on the rise either way, from 1.26 in 2005 to 1.5 in 2016), but due to their high life expectancy which itself is a byproduct of a culture that generally respects the elderly far more than western countries do.

Not exact matches

According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy for a baby born in 2016 fell to 78.6 years, which is a small but statistically significant decline of 0.1 percent.

Life expectancy is three to four years and physical degeneration is fairly rapid and eventually leads to complete paralysis, at which point he will have to be placed on a ventilator.

A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.

You can use Living to 100's Life Expectancy Calculator, which incorporates findings from the New England Centenarian Study of centenarians and their families around world, to do your own projections.

-- > The value of investing in relationships for the long - haul — > Investing in your health and longevity as a way to increase your lifetime earnings — > Why longer life expectancies should change the way you think about investing — > The shockingly low rate of personal savings and investment in the US — > My favorite part of the interview: whether we can reasonably expect the US markets to keep going up at their long - term average 7 % per year after inflation, or whether that was a unique period of US expansion which won't be repeated again.

Zimbabwe, which has an AIDS rate of 25 %, an average life expectancy of 39, and an 80 % poverty rate, ranked near the bottom at 177.

(b) The development of the technology of public health — which has increased life expectancy in the past century and is responsible for the «population explosion».

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

Responsible scholars, checking on the facts, assert that of eight persons in the working party that opened the tomb, six were still alive fourteen years later, while two were still living twenty - eight years after the event, which was longer than the period of their average life expectancy.

Lancet, which is one of the most prestigious medical journal, published an article on August 27, 2015, announcing that Japanese men and women have the best healthy life expectancy among 188 countries in the world.

A product certified with a body such as Australian Certified Organic (ACO) is subject to a stringent auditing process and is guaranteed to be grown and processed free from GMOs, toxic herbicides and pesticides, synthetic hormones, antibiotics, artificial colours, flavours and preservatives — all of which may compromise pet health and life expectancy.

The report takes many factors into account, including income, lack of government corruption, and life expectancy, which the Nordic countries all get high marks for.

As for the severely disabled who need constant everything to live and most of which will have a much diminished life expectancy (if only a few years or less), we should spoil the shit out of those kids.

In a nation where kids are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents due to diet - related disease, Chef Ann has been a constant champion of school food reform as an important avenue through which to improve childhood nutrition.

We defined «premature death» as death at age 69 years or younger, because the median lifespan of a 20 - year - old woman in the United States is 81.2 years.32 We chose this age as a conservative measure of premature death, which reflects a loss of over 10 years from the average life expectancy of a woman in the United States.

Analysis of data from 28 systematic reviews and meta - analyses, of which 22 were commissioned specifically for the Series, indicate that breastfeeding not only has multiple health benefits for children and mothers, but it also has dramatic effects on life expectancy.

Analysis of data from 28 systematic reviews and meta - analyses, of which 22 were commissioned specifically for the Series, indicate that breastfeeding not only has multiple health benefits for children and mothers, but it also has dramatic effects on life expectancy (Paper 1, table).

Over one - third of children in this country are overweight or obese, which will lead to health problems with long - term consequences: shorter life expectancies, decreased productivity, and a massive strain on our already troubled health care system.

Prof Kirby said improving survival rates on patients receiving chemotherapy, which can extend life expectancies by up to three years, meant it was a «big mistake to let him out on the premise that he would be dead within three months».

Thinktank Policy Exchange said rising life expectancy and fewer active members were responsible for the high cost, which has risen from less than # 1 billion in 1991.

It's strange that you suggest a low birth rate isn't the cause of the aging population, but then cite a sub-replacement birthrate, which is generally accepted cause of an aging population (when combined with a high overall life expectancy).

Having proper storage and cleaning facilities for all of our equipment is expected to extend the life expectancy of our vehicles by 20 % (5 years) which translates to savings of about $ 190,000 a year.

«Prediabetes is often a pre-cursor to Type 2 diabetes which can lead to a shortened life expectancy and devastating complications such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.

In developing countries with very poor healthcare system, like Nigeria, the average life expectancy is 40 years, with the lowest in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland which is 35 years, Nigeria has a life expectancy of 44 years compared to life expectancy of 82 in Japan and 80 in Switzerland (Population Reference Bureau, 2007).

Having proper storage and cleaning facilities for all of our equipment is expected to increase the life expectancy of our vehicles by 20 percent (five years), which translates to a savings of about $ 190,000 a year.

In which developed country is the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor now at its widest since the Victorian era?

It's pretty much puncture - resistant, which goes a long way to prolonging its life expectancy.

«Those diagnosed early are likely to have a normal life expectancy, which isn't always the case with long - term illnesses like diabetes,» she says.

According to the charity SignHealth, which commissioned the work, the study «revealed shocking inequality in treatment, which means that some Deaf people are at risk of reduced life expectancy.»

(Average life expectancy is a broader measure than maximum reported age at death, which the study authors used.)

Medicines can slow the progress of the disease and increase the life expectancy of boys with Duchenne, which means preserving the functionality of their arms becomes even more important.

«The next step in understanding sleep apnea in the future will be to dissect different subtypes of sleep apnea, likely defined by distinct pathophysiological mechanisms which may underlie different outcomes and predisposition to comorbidities,» Cavadas says, «As human life expectancy increases, delaying the onset of age - related diseases becomes critical to our society.»

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

A small dose of 1.56 µM, which is approximately equivalent to a daily dose of the drug in a human cancer patients, increased the fruit flies» average life expectancy by 8 %.

If the amount of miRNA were quantified in an HD patient, the amount could provide insight into the likely age of disease onset or life expectancy of the patient which current genetic testing in HD does not provide,» added Myers.

A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

Among Northwestern cities, the Canadian metropolis, which is home to more than 2.3 million residents, has the highest population density; the greatest rates of cycling, walking and transit riding; and the fewest cars per capita, plus the highest life expectancy, lowest teen birth rate and lowest poverty rate.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool revisited a study carried out 175 years ago which compared the health and life expectancy of people in different parts of the United Kingdom, including Liverpool, to see if its findings still held true.

Dr Mark Green, who conducted the study, said: «On the 175th anniversary of this report, which was ground - breaking at the time, we wanted to see if in the 21st century your geography — that is where you live — still determined your health and life expectancy.

The region scores at the very bottom of the United Nations's Index of Human Development, which ranks countries according to their incomes, life expectancy and educational attainments.

They found that although the variegated sea urchin, L. variegatus, has a much lower life expectancy in the wild than the other two species they studied, it displayed no evidence of a decline in regenerative capacity with age, which suggests that senescence may not be tied to a short life expectancy in the wild.

Watchful waiting or active surveillance — which involve monitoring patients without delivering treatment — are options, especially for those patients with low - risk disease or limited life expectancy.

«Systemic treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma has long consisted of just one agent — sorafenib - which was shown to provide a significant improvement in life expectancy almost 10 years ago, but no other agent has surpassed its benefits,» said the study's principal investigator Dr Jordi Bruix, Head of the BCLC group at the Hospital Clínic and Scientific Director of the Network for Biomedical Research for Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD).

In some countries, the epidemic will also markedly reduce the life expectancy, which has been improving for the past forty years.

But it has not yet plateaued in some that are particularly relevant to this research, namely Japan, which has the world's highest life expectancy — 83.7 years for those born in 2015, nor in France or Italy, which have large populations and high life expectancies.