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More lifestyle risk factors mean more physical disability
A risk factor is any attribute, characteristic or exposure that increases the chance of developing a disease or injury (World Health Organization). Once again, the relationship between lifestyle choices and physical health has been established by looking at controllable risk factors.
moreHealth promotion
For some heart conditions, exercise may be as valuable as drugs
Although exercise has many health benefits, many people tend to reach for medications rather than put on workout shoes. Recognizing the rise in prescriptions, a team of researchers decided to see how exercise compared to drugs among people who already had an illness.
moreCardiovascular health
The financial value of longer lives, with less disability
Healthy life expectancy, meaning the years a person can expect to live in good health, may be more important to most people than life expectancy, the years a person may live. Earlier this year, analyses in ICAA Research Review showed that lifestyle choices often led to “longer lives with less health” (13[26] July 2013) and that disability was most common in the last two years of life (13[24] July 2013).
morePublic policy
Animal-assisted therapy eases agitation from dementia
A group of 65 residents with dementia, average age 81.8 years, who lived in a nursing home were randomly assigned to receive animal-assisted therapy plus usual care, or usual care. Their behaviour was rated by observers and they were assessed using several instruments.
moreHealth conditions
Number of fractures from osteoporosis rising in Europe
According to the results of a model estimating the burden of osteoporotic fractures in 2010, approximately 22 million women and 5.5 million men in 27 member states of the European Union (EU27) had osteoporosis;
moreEconomics of aging
For nonagenarians, strength training aids function
A small group of individuals, average age 91.9, participated in a strength, balance and gait training program twice a week for 12 weeks.
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