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Attitude Of Male Dominance May Affect Life Expectancy In Men

...patriarchy - explains half the discrepancy in life expectancy between the sexes // , suggests research spanning four continents in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The researchers base their findings on a comparison of the rates of female murders and male death rates from all causes in 51 count...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement- a revolution in Cardiac Surgery

... valve replacement that greatly increases the life expectancy of the patients. Nearly 200,000 patients undergo surgical valve replacement worldwide every year. However not all patients can undergo the surgery. Approximately 2/3 rd of the patients do not receive the surgery due to associated risk factors and m...

Obesity More Likely to Cause Disability than Death in Elderly

...at obesity in later life has little impact on life expectancy in adults over age 70, but obesity does have signi...ch had said that obesity had little effect on life expectancy for either older men or women once they had reached the age of 70. Active life expectancy is, howeve...

Normal Blood Pressure Could Add Over 5 Years To Your Life

... showing the effect of high blood pressure on life expectancy overall and on life expectancy in people with cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke. The research showed that people wi...

Friendship can extend lifespan

...motional well being of people so much so that life expectancy can get significantly increased. The researchers had surveyed about 1500 people about their social contacts, in person or over the phone for about ten years in the age group of 70 years and above. Researchers had monitored factors that can influenc...

Delaying pregnancy may lessen life expectancy of the child

...at delaying pregnancy may result in shortened life expectancy //for the children. With more and more women deci...yed pregnancy is being linked to lessening of life expectancy in the babies. Researchers who have worked with delayed pregnancy in mice had said that this had le...

Schizophrenics On Medication At An Increased Risk For Developing Diabetes

...izophrenics were found to have a much shorter life expectancy than the general population attributable to many factors, including cardiovascular disease. Thus researchers conclude, that psychiatrists and primary care professionals should be aware that patients treated with clozapine and olanzapine may be at in...

Reducing The Risk Of Heart Disease

...ive, non-drug, safe and tasty way to increase life expectancy and reduce heart disease across the population....

Age Matters in Kidney Matching

...re matched with patients over age 60 then the life expectancy of each transplant patient’s life would increase by an average of nine months, with the transplanted kidney lasting an additional three years....

Improving Life Expectancy

...archers say removing the risks would increase life expectancy by an average of nine years, depending on the loca...alysis showed that even populations with high life expectancy at present, such as developed regions of the western Pacific and western Europe, could benefit consi...

Evaluating The Risks and Benefits of Hormone Therapy

...lity of life, but they may also shorten their life expectancy if they use hormone therapy. Deciding whether or... years of hormone therapy use. They looked at life expectancy and the improved quality of life among 50-year-old menopausal women. The computer model was based on...

The Risks Of Smoking

... 13 years, while women // who smoke cut their life expectancy by about 15 years . Latest research reveals new dangers of smoking. In 1964, the Surgeon General’s Report showed smoking was linked to cancers of the lung and larynx in men and chronic bronchitis in both men and women. Doctors now say that there ar...

Screening For Prostate Cancer in men over 75 Questioned

...reen older men with a PSA test is because the life expectancy without the test is nearly identical to men who have the test and undergo therapy for prostate cancer. Researchers reviewed information from a previous study to see who was initiating the idea and if physicians are discussing the risks and benefits o...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

...ns are obese //and two-thirds overweight. But life expectancy at birth continues to rise, reaching a new record ...years, an increase of one year from 1990. The life expectancy for boys born in 2001 was 74.4 years, up two years since 1990. "This tells the whole story, that whi...

World's oldest turns 116 in Japan

...ear-old Yukichi Chuganji, is Japanese.Japan's life expectancy -- 85.23 years for women and 78.32 for men in 2002 -- is the longest in the world. The average age of the population is also steadily rising.An annual government survey released Monday in conjunction with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday,...

How to Improve Life Expectancy

...me of these factors can significantly improve life expectancy worldwide. Researchers from several international...archers say removing the risks would increase life expectancy by an average of nine years, depending on the location, "The analysis showed that even populations w...

Life expectancy lessened due to obesity

... that overweight and obesity may not decrease life expectancy until a BMI of approximately 32 to 33 for men and 37 to 38 for women is reached. At these BMI levels, longevity begins to decrease, especially among individuals in the younger age categories. However, the optimal BMI (associated with the least YLL or...

Life anticipation differences identified

... a major factor accounting for differences in life expectancy between blacks and whites. It's well known that bl...tor, accounting for 16 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between black and white people. HIV/AIDS accounts for 12 per cent of the gap, while diabetes and hom...

Light therapy devotes new hope in advanced lung cancer

... in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Life expectancy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is often measured only in months, for the disease is very hard to treat, especially when it has spread// to the chest wall. In a new approach, doctors at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, have t...

An effective drug for lung cancer

...g combination has the potential to double the life expectancy of patients with asbestos-related lung cancer called Mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a cancer of the cells that make up the lining// around the outside of the lungs and inside of the ribs or around the abdominal organs. It differs from other types of l...

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