Sentences with phrase «on life expectancy increases»

Not exact matches

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Of course, your life expectancy depends on many factors beyond the statistics that would increase or decrease your life span — your overall health, lifestyle, and family history.

Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

In a follow - up to its 2008 report that found that attending services increases life expectancy, the Women's Health Initiative observational study based this report on a survey of 92,539 post-menopausal women over 50.

«The DWP may not like to hear it but its next wave of reforms will be a non-starter, unless the formula for increasing state pension age is firmly anchored on prior improvements to healthy life expectancy in poor communities,» Mr Harrop argued.

This acceleration of the increase in the state pension age will disproportionately hit those on lower incomes, who often have lower life expectancies and will lose a greater proportion of their retirements.

The Bloomberg administration has produced a flurry of statistics to argue for the success of the policies, but the mayor prides himself on one above all others: life expectancy reached 80.9 years in the city, three years higher than it was in 2001, an increase that outpaced national gains.

Opioid related deaths contributed to the first increase in the death rate in the United States in more than two decades — an uptick last seen at the height of the HIV / AIDs epidemic in 1993 — and factored into a year - over-year decline in the nation's life expectancy rate in 2015, according to an expert addressing a congressional briefing and a related presentation on the opioid epidemic at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's headquarters on May 10.

«If governments spent one cent more on social services per dollar spent on health by rearranging money between the two portfolios, life expectancy could have experienced an additional 5 % increase and potentially avoidable mortality could have experienced an additional 3 % decrease in one year.»

The new ACS recommendation to stop screening older women with life expectancies of less than 10 years is practical and consistent with the increasing emphasis on functional vs chronologic age.

Mogstad said these increases are fiscally unsustainable, especially as current disability recipients are younger and have longer life expectancies on average compared to previous cohorts of recipients.

Researchers found that increased spending on health care and increases in specialized care were both associated with longer life expectancy and less mortality in the countries studied.

On an individual level, the average life expectancy would increase about 12 months for men and four months for women.

«Our new approach can lower the operating temperature of solar cells passively, improving energy conversion efficiency significantly and increasing the life expectancy of solar cells,» said Linxiao Zhu, a physicist at Stanford and lead author on the Optica paper.

As many countries are not only in recession, but also increasing the proportion of elderly people in the population, the authors wanted to know what impact this might have on life expectancy.

Austad speculates that a similar experiment performed on humans would produce a measurable increase in life expectancy in 10 generations, or about 250 years.

Continuing increases in life expectancy imply fundamental changes to the population structure and an exponential increase in the number of elderly people.1 2 These changes are likely to have a profound influence on individuals» lives and society at large.

The greatest body of «epidemiological data» I can think of is the difference in life expectancy between men who's total body iron loading begins increasing from their mid 20s on, and women who menstruate and lose blood (and iron!)

Having reached for the first time a point in human existence where more humans are overweight than are hungry, where our children's life expectancy is less than ours, and where food resources and indigenous knowledge are vanishing faster than we can preserve them, increasing nutritional knowledge on both local and global scales is of vital importance.

Pension payments are based on your life expectancy, so it's inflexible, there's no way to increase it or decrease it, speed it up, slow it down.

Of course, your life expectancy depends on many factors beyond the statistics that would increase or decrease your life span — your overall health, lifestyle, and family history.

Increasing life expectancy, disappearing sources of guaranteed income, and historically low yields on bonds make for some tough fixed - income investing conditions; a disciplined approach can help.

Certainly not his little helpers at TLI... Charles Tracy & Ian Reynolds, both on the board since day one, deserve their fair share of the blame for a litany of mishaps & generally nasty surprises over the years... leverage, currency hedging, tax liabilities, credit exposure, life expectancies, policy expiries, premium increases & whatever other risks / issues I may have forgotten at this point.

If you delay Social Security, you get a big increase in benefits, because Social Security is designed to be fair based on the typical American's life expectancy.

The aging of the baby boomer generation, increased life expectancy, and deteriorating dependency ratios are putting upward pressure on the government's implicit liabilities and debt.

As you close in on average life expectancy your monthly payments, given the same premium, will increase.

Also, because lifetime income stream annuity payouts are based on your life expectancy, your payouts will increase because you are older each year.

This can put increased stress on the heart, liver and kidneys which can potentially shorten your pet's life expectancy.

Studies on dogs show an increased life expectancy for dogs that are about 10 percent underweight.

Many pension plans, both private and public, experience funding problems because of the variable return on their investments along with the lengthening of the period of retirement due to an increase in our life expectancy.

CHADS - VASC scores will be leaned on heavily in the future approval of these cases, and the earlier and increased prescription of novel oral anticoagulants could have a positive effect on longer life expectancy for patients suffering with Afib.

With the average life expectancy increasing the cost of term life is on its way down.

The cost to purchase a policy increases with your age as rates are based in part on how old you are and your life expectancy.

Women continue to outlive men by more than four years but the gender gap is closing — on average life expectancy for women increased by two months per year over the last decade, for men it was three months.

The aging of the baby boomer generation, increased life expectancy, and deteriorating dependency ratios are putting upward pressure on the government's implicit liabilities and debt.