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A healthy diet after a heart attack leads to longer life
Food frequency questionnaires were completed by 2,258 women from the Nurses’ Health Study and 1,840 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who had suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack).
moreCardiovascular health
Focused video game improves multitasking skills
Computer-based games to improve cognitive skills have emerged in recent years, creating a accompanying debate over whether or not they are effective in improving cognition, or what specific skills might be influenced by these games (PubMed Health).
moreCognitive health
Simply engaging in leisure-time physical activity reduces mortality risk
Leisure-time physical activity is an umbrella term for activities that are not part of a job or household duties, such as hobbies, sports, recreation and exercise. Late last year, a study found that people, most of whom were 40 and older, who engaged in moderate to vigorous leisure-time physical activity had life expectancy gains of as much as 4.5 years (PLoS Medicine).
morePhysical wellness
Older women's health best in high-income countries
In May of this year (2013), the World Health Organization’s 194 Member States agreed on a global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases (WHO Global NCD Action Plan 2013-2020). Noncommunicable diseases cause the most deaths worldwide; women are the largest percentage of older persons.
moreHealth promotion
National economies affect frailty and fitness in older adults
A frailty index was built based on the indicators collected for 36,306 community-dwelling people, 50 years and older, who lived in the 15 countries participating in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
moreHealth promotion
Positive attitude helps people with heart disease live longer
People with cardiac ischemia have restricted blood flow caused by narrowed arteries, which results in less blood and oxygen circulating to the heart.
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