Share on PinterestA study found that heart-healthy lifestyle habits described in the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8, such as physical activity and quality sleep, are associated with a longer lifespan and more years spent free of chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cancer. urbazon/Getty Images
The American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 is a concept that defines cardiovascular health based on four modifiable behaviors, such as physical activity and sleep, and four modifiable biometric measures, such as weight, blood glucose, and blood lipid levels, that impact cardiovascular health.
The composite cardiovascular health score measured using the aforementioned…
For Ali Mohammad, a 33-year-old property management worker who started smoking in his teens, the saying ‘health is wealth’ has special significance.
After Maldives hiked import duties on tobacco products to 60% of retail price in May 2017, Ali made a potentially life-saving decision. “My health and pocket were suffering,” he explained. “Obviously, this was becoming a more and more costly habit for me. I decided to quit.”
That is exactly the response Maldives’ Ministry of Health set out to encourage. As Health Minister Abdulla Nazim Ibrahim emphasized on World No Tobacco Day, “Smoking brings nothing but harm to everyone,”…
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Long life study explores genetics of extreme longevity
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A new grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports research into the mysteries of extreme longevity. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is leading the Long Life Family Study, which includes several generations of families with unusual concentrations of long-lived individuals. The goal is to uncover genetic factors that play roles in long life spans.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Louis has received a $68 million grant to investigate and discover…
Using local authority estimates has important implications for policy. We look at how these estimates are used in the indicators, as well as how they compare to other measures of geographical inequalities in healthy life expectancy.
Construction of the healthy life expectancy indicator
Taking a broader range of local authorities, rather than the extremes of highest and lowest, helps to account for outliers with potentially unique circumstances. For example, in 2017–19 a girl born in the Orkney Islands was expected to have 75.1 years of good health, compared to a girl born in Blackpool with a healthy life expectancy of…
Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year’s “World Health Statistics: Monitoring Health for the SDGs”.
Life expectancy increased by 5 years between 2000 and 2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s. Those gains reversed declines during the 1990s, when life expectancy fell in Africa because of the AIDS epidemic and in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The increase was greatest in the African Region of WHO where life expectancy increased by 9.4 years to 60 years, driven mainly by improvements…
Rosalynn Carter, the former first lady and humanitarian who championed mental health care, provided constant political counsel to her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, and modeled graceful longevity for the nation, died Sunday at her home in Plains, Georgia, according to the Carter Center.
Carter was 96. She had entered hospice care in her home on Friday.
In a statement, former President Carter said: “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported…
At a Glance
Researchers found that people who maintained five healthy lifestyle factors lived more than a decade longer than those who didn’t maintain any of the five.
The results suggest that Americans can increase the length of their lives and lower their disease risk by adopting a healthier lifestyle.
Americans don’t live as long as people in most other high-income countries. Heart disease and cancer are two of the most common preventable chronic diseases in the United States. An unhealthy lifestyle increases your risk for these and other chronic diseases that can lead to early death.
To explore the…
FIFA and WHO extend Memorandum of Understanding for four more years
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and FIFA President Gianni Infantino sign new agreement in Geneva, Switzerland
Both organizations renewed commitment to continue working together to promote health through football
FIFA and WHO have agreed to extend their collaboration and to continue to use the power of football to promote healthy lifestyles and equal access to health services worldwide.
During the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and FIFA President Gianni Infantino signed a four-year extension to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…