Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study showed that tackling unhealthy lifestyle factors would provide the greatest benefit in increasing life expectancy among those with SMI. In particular, interventions that aim to stop smoking among people with schizophrenia and approaches to lessen sedentary behaviour among people with bipolar disorders appear to be the most […]
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US life expectancy up for first time in four years
Credit: CC0 Public Domain US life expectancy is up for the first time in four years, driven by factors including a fall in the rate of fatal drug overdoses and cancer deaths, official statistics showed Thursday. The increase in 2018, the latest year for which data is ready, was marginal: 78.7 years compared to 78.6 […]
Exercising for 13 minutes day could extend life expectancy by 3 years
Daily exercise of less than 15 minutes a day could extend your life expectancy by three years, study finds Findings suggest people don’t need to spend hours in gym to see health benefits Health insurance firm Vitality looked at 140,000 people from around the world Inactive peoplesaw their life expectancy grow by three years if they […]
Life expectancy for England’s poorest women has fallen by 98 days
Life expectancy for the poorest women in England has fallen by almost 100 DAYS in five years – but the lives of the richest men have gone UP by nearly the same amount Women’s life expectancies dropped in four out of 10 categories of wealth Men’s only fell in two categories and by far fewer […]
Shorter life expectancy linked to 2016 presidential election outcome
Concerns about health and rising death rates may have helped tilt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald J. Trump, according to an analysis of voting patterns and mortality rates in counties across the U.S. Findings from the study, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), were published online today in the Journal of […]
UK is now ‘bottom of the league’ in improvements in life expectancy
UK is now at the ‘bottom of the league’ when it comes to improvements in life expectancy, reveals official analysis of world’s 20 leading economies (and the US is a close second bottom) Rises in life expectancy at birth for women in the UK is the lowest, figures reveal The UK is second in terms […]