mortality

It’s a common mantra for people to view the elderly as more knowledgeable thanks to their increased number of years alive, which are thought to translate to life experience. While this is true in some respects, your doctor may be the exception. According to a new study, patients treated by older hospital-based doctors—known as hospitalists—are ...click here to read more

Systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, is an autoimmune disease that mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in the body, and research shows it raises mortality rates by as much as 67 percent, with young adults being at the highest risk. The Lupus Foundation of America estimates that about 5 million people suffer from some form of lupus ...click here to read more

More and more Americans are not only living to the age 100 but even beyond that with 72,000 Americans who turned 100, they are still living beyond their years. Death rates for centenarians were on the rise between 2000 and 2008 but since 2008 this has been on the decline. Furthermore, cause of death for ...click here to read more

It was previously believed that being unhappy and stressed could contribute to early mortality and poor health, but new findings suggest that unhappiness and stress won’t kill you. Researchers analyzed data from 719,671 women with a median age of 59 to explore if being unhappy and stressed out can actually have negative health outcomes and ...click here to read more

Those who have a higher sense of purpose in life also have a lower mortality rate and cardiovascular risk, according to new findings. “Possessing a high sense of purpose in life is associated with a reduced risk for mortality and cardiovascular events,” said the authors of the study, Dr. Randy Cohen and Dr. Alan Rozanski. ...click here to read more

New research shows that personally tailored diabetes care is effective in women but not in men. Personalized care has been shown to reduce mortality, but only in women. The findings were published in Diabetologia. Between 1989 and 1995 the Diabetes Care in General Practice trial (Denmark) conducted an intervention of structured personalized care in newly diagnosed ...click here to read more

Metabolism has been shown to affect aging, longevity and mortality. New research from the American Chemical Society can better help us understand longevity. Their study was conducted on worms, and researchers believe they can accurately predict longevity at middle-age. Being able to predict longevity is useful for insurance companies, retirement investing and health care planning. ...click here to read more

All five senses guide us through life. Whether seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or feeling, they work together to paint a picture of the world. When something smells bad, we likely won’t approach or eat it. The foul smell signals to us it’s probably not good for our health. This is how our senses can boost ...click here to read more

If you are a man trying to have a child with your partner and planning for the future, you’re probably reasonably healthy at the moment. You may even be in peak mental shape. But if you’re a guy experiencing fertility “challenges,” you now need to concern yourself with the chance of an early death. Semen ...click here to read more

When performing physical exams on new patients, there’s always one question that manages to break the monotony of an otherwise routine checklist of health questions: How old are you? “A woman never tells…I’m young at heart…I feel older than I am…how old do I look?… I’ve been 25 for over four decades now…” The variety ...click here to read more