Where you live linked to life expectancy
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Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation's health disparities, differences so stark that a report issued Monday contends it's as if there are eight separate Americas instead of one.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canadians have a greater risk of dying within five years after a common type of heart attack than their American cousins, a study comparing treatments in the two countries suggests.
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A study of older British men finds that those who shrink in height by about an inch or more over 20 years are more likely to die earlier than other men. Those men also have a greater risk of heart disease.
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SANTA MONICA - People who live in suburbia tend to have more chronic health problems than urbanites, according to a study issued today by a Santa Monica-based think tank.
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MONDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- If you&#39;re the child of parents who lived to 85 or more, your risk for heart disease in middle age is significantly lower than children of parents who died earlier, researchers report.
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Some statistics on American life as Election Day nears, compared with four years earlier.
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Life expectancy for Japanese women &#151; already the longest in the world &#151; has risen by nearly one year, the Health Ministry said Thursday, citing the latest census data.
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Life expectancy is no longer a business concern merely for insurance companies and undertakers. A telecommunications company has more than a passing interest now that it offers a lifetime of unlimited calls over the Internet for &#36;999.
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PARIS: A diet rich in fish, fruit, vegetables and a daily glass of red wine could help people in wealthy countries extend their life span by five years or more, according to a new study.
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Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark
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People who adopt four healthy principles can add as much as 14 years to their lives, study reveals
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Living near a petrol station or commercial garage may quadruple the risk of childhood leukaemia. The study in France found a link between cases of acute leukaemia among youngsters and how close they lived to a petrol station or a garage carrying out car ...
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MONDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Your health in your later years can be affected by cumulative psychological trauma you've experienced throughout your life, says a study in the December issue of Psychology and Aging.
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Localities are tailoring services to help aging populations live longer in their own homes.
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It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong, and it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better.
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Well then there is good news for you, for a new study conducted by researchers at the Psychiatric Center GGZ Delfland, Delft, the Netherlands, suggests that highly optimistic people have lower risks of all-cause death, and lower rates of cardiovascular
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Does where you live influence what you eat? A new study says ZIP codes are surprisingly accurate predictors of obesity.