These women also had a 22 percent higher overall death rate and a 25
percent higher risk of dying from cancer, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
More specifically, those who got between 17 and 21 percent of calories from added sugars had a 38
percent higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease compared to those who consumed 8 percent of their calories from added sugar.
It may even help you live longer: According to a 2011 study of older adults, those who never flossed had up to a 30
percent higher risk of dying during the study than those with a daily flossing habit.
A 2014 study revealed that people who consumed 17 percent to 21 percent of their daily calories from the sweet stuff had a 38
percent higher risk of dying from heart disease compared with those who kept their added sugar intake to 8 percent of their daily calories.
According to study co-author Rebecca Ghosh, «Putting this in context, an individual who lived in a higher polluted area in 1971 had a 14
percent higher risk of dying in 2002 to 2009 than someone who had lived in a lower polluted area.»
A new large - scale observational study involving data from nearly half a million people has found that night owls have a 10
percent higher risk of dying sooner than those with a preference for getting to bed early.
A study last year found that people in their 70s whose biological age is five years greater than their chronological age have a 20
percent higher risk of dying over six years than people whose biological and chronological ages are the same.
«Night owls have higher risk of dying sooner: Evening types have 10
percent higher risk of dying than morning counterparts.»
They quite simply smoke more convincingly — which is, of course, very harmful for their health — and they have a 14
percent higher risk of dying before other smokers,» says Børge Nordestgaard.
Not exact matches
Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21
percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32
percent more likely to
die of a heart attack».
In fact, when compared with newborns put to the breast within an hour
of birth, the
risk of dying in the first 28 days
of life is 41 per cent
higher for those who initiated 2 to 23 hours after birth, and 79
percent higher for those who initiated one day or longer after birth.
Instead, the lower cholesterol fell, the
higher the
risk of dying: 22
percent higher for every 30 - point fall.
The tool showed that children who tested positive for
high -
risk sepsis had a 34
percent chance
of not surviving, but those children who tested negative had only a 3
percent chance
of dying.
However, even with very low viral loads, approximately 20
percent of HIV - positive patients
die of heart disease, and studies have shown that treatment with cART is associated with a
higher risk of heart attack.
On the other hand, the review did draw a strong link between the
higher consumption
of trans fat and a 34
percent bump in the
risk of dying early from any cause, as well as a 28
percent bump in the
risk of dying early specifically from heart disease.
A second phase 3 study presented Sunday found that adding radiation to hormone therapy, also known as androgen - deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with locally advanced or
high -
risk prostate cancer reduced the seven - year
risk of dying by 43
percent compared to treating with hormone therapy alone.
Research has shown that supplementing with selenium, an essential trace mineral, can cut your
risk of dying from cancer by a very significant margin — as
high as 50
percent, in some studies.
Also
of note,
high potassium intake is associated with a 20
percent reduction in the
risk of dying from all causes.
In one recent study, the
risk of dying over a two - decade period was 50
percent higher for lonely men and 49
percent higher for lonely women than it was for those who did not experience feelings
of isolation.
These
high -
risk breeds (more than 10
percent dying of cancer) are: Boxer (36.9
percent), Giant Schnauzer (36.9
percent), Bernese Mountain Dog (32.7
percent), Irish Wolfhound (24.8
percent), Cocker Spaniel (22.2
percent), Doberman Pinscher (22.2
percent), Pomeranian (19.0
percent), Newfoundland (16.8
percent), German Shepherd Dog (14.8
percent), Saint Bernard (13.1
percent), Great Dane (12.3
percent), Greyhound (12.3
percent) and Basset Hound (percentage unknown, but the breed does have a genetic predisposition to lymphomas).
The
risk of dying from a heart attack is 40
percent higher in people who never owned a cat, compared to people who have,» say researchers from the University
of Minnesota's Stroke Institute in Minneapolis.
For women between the ages
of 70 and 75, the reduced
risk of dying from breast cancer was even
higher; 84
percent.