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Study finds weak handgrip strength may indicate major health problems
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Austria [Vienna], July 25 (ANI): By testing handgrip strength, one may rapidly and easily determine muscle strength, a significant predictor of death. Researchers created cut-off values for the general population in a recent study, taking into account the relationship between handgrip streng
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Do you know adding extra salt to your food linked to higher risk of prema
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): According to a recent research of more than 500,000 people discovered that people are at higher risk of dying prematurely from any reason, who add extra salt to their cooked food at the table.
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NHRC issues notice to environment ministry on reports of 'air pollution im
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took a suo motu cognizance of media reports quoting an external survey that air pollution is a great threat to human health in India, reducing life expectancy overall by 5 years and 9.7 years for the people in Delh
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EPIC India believes UP residents can increase their life expectancy by 8 y
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): The air pollution study at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in India (EPIC India) on Wednesday said that more than 63 per cent of India's population lives in areas that exceed the national air quality standard of 40 micrograms per
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Healthy lifestyle assosiated with more years without Alzheimer's: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): Healthy lifestyle is associated with longer life expectancy, and people who follow it live a larger proportion of their remaining years without Alzheimer's disease.
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Living healthy lifestyle linked to more years without Alzheimer's: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 14 (ANI): The findings of a US study suggest that a healthy lifestyle is linked to longer life expectancy, and people who follow it live a larger proportion of their remaining years without Alzheimer's disease.
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Study finds life expectancy disparities in India
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): According to a new study, life expectancy in India varies across different social groups.
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Changes in diet could increase life expectancy: Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 12 (ANI): According to a recent study, young adults could add more than a decade to their life expectancy by changing their diet from a typical Western diet to an optimized diet that includes more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat.
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Changing diet could add up to a decade of life expectancy, says study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Bergen [Norway], February 9 (ANI): Our elders unsurprisingly lived up to eighty years and more, even without much medication or hospitalisation, while the youth nowadays grapple with heart diseases, diabetes, obesity, blood pressure and whatnot. But, according to a new study, a young adult c
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New study finds ultrasound stimulation as effective therapy for Alzheimer'
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Gwangju [South Korea], January 26 (ANI): An increase in average life expectancy in many parts of the world has made certain age-related diseases more common. Alzheimer's disease (AD), is one of them, being extremely prevalent within ageing societies in Japan, Korea, and various European coun
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Korea's poverty rate for the elderly is highest among OECD countries
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], September 30 (ANI/Global Economic): As the life expectancy of the elderly increases, Korea's economic participation rate of elderly people is increasing. However, the poverty rate for the elderly is still the highest among OECD countries.
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Study finds infected ants live much longer than uninfected ones
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], May 28 (ANI): Life expectancy of tapeworm-infected worker ants is significantly higher than that of their uninfected nest-mates and resembles that of ant queens, according to a study led by researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
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