Boomers are more concerned
with lifestyle factors, such as how well the space is laid out or if it's located in a desirable community.
Previous surgeries, procedures, tests, immunisations, etc. are taken into consideration, along
with lifestyle factors like smoking, drinking, exercise, sexual health, and other bodily functions.
In short, inside every cell in your body are telomeres, the changing protective caps on the ends of your DNA strands that get shorter with age at a rate that can increase or decrease
with lifestyle factors either positive or negative.
To complete the picture, the plate is surrounded
with lifestyle factors that create optimal health: relationship, career, physical activity and spirituality.
Earlier research among patients with colon cancer has revealed worse outcomes among
those with lifestyle factors that heighten insulin resistance, such as obesity, lack of exercise, and a diet with high levels of carbohydrates that quickly raise levels of blood sugar.
A new study of patients who survive the once - nearly fatal Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) finds their subsequent quality of life has more to do
with lifestyle factors than how sick they were in the hospital.
These conditions involve a tangled web of genes, paired
with lifestyle factors and environmental conditions — Is she a smoker?
Not exact matches
But
with the rise of the urban
lifestyle and outside
factors like the Dust Bowl and Great Depression... that unique culture began to die out more and more.
As the eating habits of Americans face increasing scrutiny, one thing is clear: a nutritious diet is a key
factor contributing to good health along
with regular physical activity and a healthy
lifestyle.
A more sedentary
lifestyle, junk food — including low - grade meat products — and food
with high salt content are all contributory
factors to obesity in children.
The Sun claim Salamo, a Spanish actress, is seen as having led Isco astray
with a wild
lifestyle, which is seen as a
factor behind the 25 - year - old's dip in form.
With parents working long hours, schedules packed with school, after - school activities, and other lifestyle factors, naps are missed, bedtimes are pushed back, mornings start earlier and nights may be anything but peace
With parents working long hours, schedules packed
with school, after - school activities, and other lifestyle factors, naps are missed, bedtimes are pushed back, mornings start earlier and nights may be anything but peace
with school, after - school activities, and other
lifestyle factors, naps are missed, bedtimes are pushed back, mornings start earlier and nights may be anything but peaceful.
Studies to date have examined familial clustering of risk behaviors linked
with accelerated weight gain in children, psychosocial consequences of obesity in children, parenting strategies that promote active
lifestyles in children, and developmental and contextual
factors that explain declines in adolescent girls» physical activity.
Every family is different so the style of stroller they purchase varies
with their
lifestyle, needs, storage space, and other
factors.
Work, medical conditions, and
lifestyle are among the many
factors affecting the decision to transition to or supplement
with formula.
A pregnancy and postpartum
lifestyle intervention in women
with gestational diabetes mellitus reduces diabetes risk
factors: a feasibility randomized control trial
Certain
factors, such as low socioeconomic status and a rural
lifestyle, are correlated
with lower dietary quality and higher obesity rates.
However, the authors note that dietary isoflavone intake was correlated
with socioeconomic and
lifestyle factors, which may also play a role in lowering mortality.
Although a healthy
lifestyle and environmental
factors can promote longevity, a new genome - wide survey has ID'd genes strongly associated
with living beyond the century mark
With rising rates of inactivity and obesity, the researchers wanted to know if there was a relationship between clusters of risk
factors for cognitive decline, and how
lifestyle factors might help prevent or delay it.
One
lifestyle factor, however, correlates
with elevated death rates in almost every mortality study of any population in the world: smoking.
The focus of the CPMC paper was to identify the genes associated
with sleep duration and validate the connection between sleep and several demographic and
lifestyle factors, including age, gender, weight, ethnicity, exercise, smoking and alcohol.
«Aside from the direct association
with cardiovascular risk
factors, skipping breakfast might serve as a marker for a general unhealthy diet or
lifestyle which in turn is associated
with the development and progression of atherosclerosis,» said Jose L. Peñalvo, PhD, assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the senior author of the study.
«Our research teams are particularly interested in the impact of
lifestyle related
factors in dementia and by collaborating
with experts in diabetes and metabolism, we have been able to investigate the nature of the link in great detail.
Looking at the total of 5,796 deaths, 1,649 CV deaths, and 4,784 major CVD events, and adjusting for demographic,
lifestyle, health, and dietary
factors, the study showed greater fruit, vegetable, and legume intake was associated
with lower total mortality, and non-CV mortality.
They found that
lifestyle factors, specifically obesity and smoking, were associated
with a worse quality of life rating.
Medical guidelines recommend anyone
with a heart disease risk
factor should receive regular blood pressure and blood cholesterol checks, as well as counseling on smoking and heart - healthy
lifestyle changes.
It's entirely possible that alcohol in combination
with some other
lifestyle factor is the key.
Lead author Dr Allan Pacey, Senior Lecturer in Andrology at the University of Sheffield, said: «Our knowledge of
factors that influence sperm size and shape is very limited, yet faced
with a diagnosis of poor sperm morphology, many men are concerned to try and identify any
factors in their
lifestyle that could be causing this.
Other
factors associated
with the disease include
lifestyle, diet, and obesity.
All participants first completed a detailed food - frequency questionnaire along
with a questionnaire regarding
lifestyle and background
factors (alcohol, smoking, physical activity, and years of education) as well as a brief physical examination including measurement of waist circumference.
Although the study failed to find any association between sperm morphology and other common
lifestyle factors, such as cigarette smoking or alcohol consumption, it remains possible that they could correlate
with other aspects of sperm that were not measured, such as the quality of the DNA contained in the sperm head.
There are other confounding
factors researchers must cope
with as well, such as industrial pollution and differences in
lifestyle and health care.
By picking out people
with the mutation from a large population and then examining their
lifestyles and family histories, researchers hope to be able to identify
factors other than the mutation that are also linked to breast cancer.
With such prevalence, finding
lifestyle factors that may slow down the rate of cognitive impairment can make a big difference to individuals and society, Dr. Petersen notes.
«Behaviors such as poor diet choices, physical inactivity, excess alcohol consumption and unhealthy body weight could account for more than 20 percent of cancer cases, and could, therefore, be prevented
with lifestyle modifications,» Kohler said, adding that when tobacco exposure is considered, these modifiable issues are believed to be
factors in two - thirds of U.S. cancer deaths.
But
with half the country's disease burden stemming from
lifestyle, «the constant battle against illness and disease... has to include behavioral and social
factors as well.»
Among participants in the BioImage study, both genetic and
lifestyle factors were independently associated
with levels of calcium - containing plaque in the coronary arteries, and healthy
lifestyle factors were associated
with less extensive plaque within each genetic risk group.
Within each genetic risk category, the presence of
lifestyle factors significantly altered the risk of coronary events to such an extent that following a favorable
lifestyle could reduce the incidence of coronary events by 50 percent in those
with the highest genetic risk scores.
Additionally, even
with heightened risk, a heart healthy
lifestyle — maintaining a normal body weight, regular exercise and controlling other risk
factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol — can help lower the risk of heart disease and heart failure.
There are currently limited treatments to prevent or delay declining cognition or dementia due to vascular disease, but if risk is identified early, then development of these diseases might be slowed
with lifestyle adjustments and treatments for risk
factors like blood pressure.
These findings suggest that calcium scoring can be an effective tool for assessing heart disease risks in adults
with no known risk
factors so that they can make the
lifestyle and other changes that can help them avoid heart disease in the future.»
«As the number of obese children
with high cholesterol continues to grow, we need to have effective
lifestyle modifications to help them reverse their risk
factors for heart disease,» Dr. Macknin said.
«
With an underfunded health care system and a population that would benefit more from a focus on
lifestyle factors, such as smoking and abuse of alcohol and drugs, we should not enter into expensive high - tech endeavors,» says Tiina Tasmuth, a professor of medical education at the University of Tallinn.
This is worked out using current familial and
lifestyle risk
factors, and used to predict how many more years that individual can expect to live before s / he has a heart attack / stroke compared
with someone without these particular
factors — if no corrective action is taken.
The project would also attempt to link an individual patient's genetic results
with clinical outcome and
lifestyle factors such as smoking, which TCGA didn't do.
Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade
with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and
lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.
No association was found between the genetic risk score and
lifestyle factors and testing confirmed that only the abdominal adiposity effects of the identified gene variants were associated
with cardiometabolic risk.
It involves a host of genetic,
lifestyle and environmental
factors, and is now known to comprise hundreds of diseases — each
with unique features, driving forces and vulnerabilities to treatments.
«Observational studies like this are not able to pinpoint cause and effect but can be extremely useful in giving us an idea of
lifestyle factors that are associated
with good health.