First ever comprehensive
studies of life expectancy, causes of death, and child mortality at provincial level in China suggest that localisation of policies will be crucial to government health reforms
Not exact matches
In fact, 40 %
of retirees underestimate
life expectancy of people their age by at least five years, according to a
study by the Society
of Actuaries.
Driving forces cited in the
study include increasing
life expectancy, elimination
of pensions, economic uncertainy and re-visioning
of later
life towards purpose and social engagement.
As Gallup notes, previous research has tied well - being scores to health outcomes including
life expectancy and a lower risk
of obesity, while some
studies suggest that taking time off positively impacts the brain and heart.
The
study found that improvements in
life expectancy top out at about four hours
of running per week, hence the «three years longer» conclusion.
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.
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.
And they certainly don't say anything about a specific person who shares one characteristic
of a
studied group but not others (for example, the
life -
expectancy of a non-promiscuous, non-drug-using, non-depressed gay person).
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 happiness report is a serious
study of people's emotional well - being based on a country's gross domestic product per capita, healthy
life expectancy, the social support people are offered, freedom to make
life choices, generosity and perceptions
of corruption.
The Japanese hold the stake for one
of the longest
life expectancies on the planet, with
studies linking diet as directly attributable to this impressive record.
«Choice
of medical center impacts
life expectancy of multiple myeloma patients,
study shows.»
Studies of cloned mice and cattle show considerably reduced
life expectancy.
The
study also found that, in the USSR, after years
of declines,
life expectancy increased by 3.2 years for men and 1.3 years for women from 1984 to 1987 as policy reduced the supply
of alcohol.
«Our
study shows that failed substance use policies can reverse
life expectancy trends for large population groups or even countries,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, Director
of Social and Epidemiological Research at CAMH and first author
of the
study.
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.»
In a huge
study of female rhesus macaques, a scientist from the University
of Exeter found those with many close female relatives have better
life expectancy.
Study co-author Linda - Gail Bekker, MD, PhD — Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University
of Cape Town, South Africa, and current President
of the International AIDS Society — says, «Whether the yardstick is mortality,
life expectancy or new transmissions, these reductions would almost certainly produce proportionally greater harm than savings — do more human harm than economic good.»
During a conversation this month in his office at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, Fine rattled off more dismal stats, like the many failed clinical trials
of experimental drugs for glioblastoma; like the paltry increase in
life expectancy for people with glioblastoma from 12 months in 1990 to 15 today; like the stupid (in hindsight) assumptions about how glioblastomas grow and how to
study them in mice.
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has a
life expectancy of approx. 8 weeks and belongs to the model organisms
studied by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology
of Ageing in their quest to understand aging in
living beings.
Life expectancy in the U.S. was the lowest
of all 11 countries in the
study, at 78.8 years; the range for other countries was 80.7 - 83.9 years.
Eileen Crimmins, a gerontologist at the University
of Southern California,
studies how
life expectancy influences chronic disease burden, as measured by the time one needs help and care.
Hip replacement surgery not only improves quality
of life but is also associated with increased
life expectancy, compared to people
of similar age and sex, reports a
study in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ® (CORR ®), a publication
of The Association
of Bone and Joint Surgeons ®.
The striking finding is that both
studies produced remarkably similar results, increasing our confidence that we have uncovered the causal relationship between particulates air pollution and
life expectancy,» says Avraham Ebenstein, a lecturer in the Department
of Environmental Economics and Management at Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and an author
of both
studies.
They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on
life expectancy in many parts
of the world similar to the effects
of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says
study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director
of the Energy Policy Institute at the University
of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.
A new
study by University
of Southern California and Yale University researchers suggests that at least part
of the gains in
life expectancy over recent decades may be due to a change in the rate
of biological aging, rather than simply keeping ailing people alive.
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.
Results published in Hepatology, a journal
of the American Association for the
Study of Liver Diseases, also found that patients diagnosed in childhood were at higher risk
of relapse, need
of a liver transplant, and reduced
life expectancy.
According to the WHO
study, fewer women aged 50 years and older in these countries are dying from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than 30 years ago and these health improvements contributed most to increasing women's
life expectancy at the age
of 50.
They
studied regenerative capacity in three species
of sea urchins with long, intermediate and short
life expectancies: the red sea urchin, Mesocentrotus franciscanus, one
of the world's longest -
lived organisms with a
life expectancy of more than 100 years; the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, with a
life expectancy of more than 50 years; and the variegated sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus, with a
life expectancy of only four years.
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.
To fill in more blanks, Armand M. Leroi
studied the metabolic profiles
of the tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans to see if they could find patterns related to
life expectancy.
In France, the United Kingdom and Chile, the
life expectancy of 50 - year - old women increased by about 2.5 years to 36.7, 34.4 and 34.3 years, so that they can expect to
live to 83 or 84 years thanks to improvements in these health areas, the
study showed.
«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).
A 2009
study published in the New England Journal
of Medicine found that efforts to reduce fine particle pollution from automobiles, diesel engines, steel mills and coal - fired power plants have added between four and eight months to the average American's
life expectancy in recent years.
Other
studies suggest that even a small move towards healthier eating has an impact on the health and
life expectancy of a population.
You analyze the definitive
studies and find that the number
of people whose
lives are saved by bypass surgery, angiograms, and cholesterol - lowering drugs is statistically insignificant — and yet
life expectancy has risen since the advent
of all three
of those treatments.
«These old
studies support the idea
of a continuing «dementia epidemic», but are now out
of date because
of changes in
life expectancy,
living conditions, and improvements in health care and lifestyle,» says Carol Brayne, lead author and Professor
of Public Health Medicine at the Cambridge Institute
of Public Health (CIPH), University
of Cambridge in the UK.
For patients who have experienced a large stroke that cuts off blood supply to a large part
of the brain, the use
of standardized medical management protocol and surgery to decompress swelling can improve
life expectancy, Mayo Clinic researchers found in a recent
study.
However, assuming individuals that migrated permanently were lost from the
study population (died), we estimated the
life expectancy of adult snow leopards to be 5 years (95 % CI: 2.05 — 13.78 years).
Overall, men and women in the
study had a
life expectancy of 77.7 and 81.4 years, respectively.
If all U.S. adults were nonsmokers
of normal weight,
life expectancy would increase by 3.76 years, or 5.16 quality - adjusted years, according to the
study.
Excessive sitting has been linked to a host
of health problems and even a lower
life expectancy by many scientific
studies.
The Loma Linda Californian Adventists are part
of the Blue Zones and among these adventists the vegetarians have the longest
life expectancy out
of any formally
studied population.
There are several published
studies on Heart Failure patients from mild to severe that see improvement in
life expectancy, quality
of life, and also improved ejection fraction output.
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of the biggest fat consuming countries in Europe — France and Germany, who also have the highest
life expectancy in Europe.