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WHO lists 10 threats to global health in 2019
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): Taking to its website, the World Health Organization (WHO) has written that the world is facing multiple health challenges. These include outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesit
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Social isolation increases death risk
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 17 (ANI): Findings of a recent study have linked social isolation to higher risk of death.
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Sedentary lifestyle can increase risk of urinary tract symptoms
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 21 (ANI): Sitting and physical inactivity can increase the risk of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS).
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Poor sleep, physical inactivity up risk of obesity
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], October 22 (ANI): Obesity is a disease characterised by excessive body fat. People, who are medically obese, usually are affected by behaviour, genetic and environmental factors that are difficult to control with dieting.
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Insulin resistance linked with cognitive performance: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 23 (ANI): Higher level of blood sugar and insulin resistance, accompanied by obesity and physical inactivity, is also linked to more rapid decline in cognitive performance, says a new study.
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Here`s how much couch potatoes are costing the world
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 28 (ANI): A world-first study has revealed that in 2013, physical inactivity cost 67.5 billion international dollars globally in healthcare expenditure and lost productivity, revealing the enormous economic burden of an increasingly sedentary world.
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