News tagged with mortality risk

The downside of marriage: the greater a wife's age gap from her husband, the lower her life expectancy

Marriage is more beneficial for men than for women - at least for those who want a long life. Previous studies have shown that men with younger wives live longer. While it had long been assumed that women ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (17) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Use of medication for insomnia or anxiety increases mortality risk by 36 percent

Taking medications to treat insomnia and anxiety increases mortality risk by 36%, according to a study conducted by Genevičve Belleville, a professor at Universite Laval's School of Psychology. The details of this study ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Deadly effect of arsenic in drinking water measured in massive study

More than 20 percent of deaths in a study of 12,000 Bangladeshis were attributable to arsenic exposure from contaminated drinking water, new research reports.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elder self-neglect and abuse associated with increased risk of death

Elderly individuals who have a report of self-neglect or abuse submitted to a social service agency have an associated increased risk of death, according to a study in the August 5 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and hu ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers develop tool to rank death rates

Have you ever wondered what the chances are that you may die in the next year? Would it be from illness or an accident? Is it something you can control? Or is it completely out of your hands?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Overweight adults may have the lowest mortality: Do they have the best health?

While overweight adults die at lower rates than other weight categories, a new study shows that higher body weight was consistently associated with worse health risk profiles.

Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 8

Risk of hospital patient mortality increases with nurse staffing shortfalls, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nurses are the front-line caregivers to hospital patients, coordinating and providing direct care and delivering it safely and reliably. The goal for any hospital is to ensure that each of its patient-care ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

After cutting value of life, EPA ditching the term

(AP) -- Bureaucrats are struggling with an age-old question: What is the value of our lives?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 12

How safe is mist netting? First large-scale study into bird capture technique evaluates the risks

Capturing birds using mist nets to study behaviour, movement or the demographics of a species is one of the most common research techniques in ornithology, yet until now there have been no large scale studies ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spanish heart risk study challenges image of healthy Mediterranean diet and lifestyle

A Spanish study has challenged the long-held belief that people in the Mediterranean all enjoy more healthy diets and lifestyles, after discovering alarmingly high cardiovascular risk factors similar to those found in the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Risk model based on Get with the Guidelines analysis can help

Using data from more than 270,000 hospital stroke admissions, scientists have identified how to predict which patients are at greatest risk of dying in the hospital after stroke. Before their study, well validated models ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women with both diabetes and depression at higher risk of dying from heart disease, other causes

Depression and diabetes appear to be associated with a significantly increased risk of death from heart disease and risk of death from all causes over a six-year period for women, according to a report in the January issue ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find formula that forestalls aging

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Lack of Social Interaction Affects Health Outcomes of Breast Cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Social environment can play an important role in the biology of disease, including breast cancer, and lead to significant differences in health outcome, according to results of a study published in Cancer Pr ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kidney function and damage markers predict mortality risk

Common tests of kidney function and damage predict the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases and all causes, according to a paper from the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium, established last year by Kidney ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0