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Healthy lifestyle may increase life expectancy, research suggests
People with a healthy lifestyle lived with Alzheimer’s for a smaller proportion of their remaining years, the study also found.
Exercising even half the recommended amount can help prevent depression
Already known to help ease depression, regular exercise may also help prevent it, with people who exercised just half the recommended weekly amount lowering their risk for depression by 18 percent, according to new research.
Older people who get covid are at increased risk of getting shingles
Those 50 and older who had a mild case of covid-19 are 15 percent more likely to develop the painful ailment within six month than those who had not been infected by the coronavirus, study says.
Number of adolescents prescribed opioids after surgery has declined
Nearly half of adolescents get a post-surgical opioid prescription now, representing a decline from more than three-fourths given opioids five years earlier.
Over a quarter of 12-to-19-year-olds have prediabetes, research shows
The percentage of youths with prediabetes has more than doubled in recent years, going from just under 12 percent in 1999 to 28 percent by 2018.
Almost 80,000 Americans are living with end-stage kidney disease
New cases have increased by 42 percent in the past two decades, a CDC report says.
2.55 million middle and high school students use some type of tobacco product
E-cigarettes were young smokers’ most commonly used product.
The most-fit are 33 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s, report says
As fitness improved, people’s chances of developing the dementia decreased, researchers found.
Pandemic led to cancelation, postponement of 30 percent of health-care visits
Many older people have since gotten the care they need, but a number of them have not, research says.
Depression affects about 280 million people worldwide
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