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Four Factors of Early Death

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:54:17 +0000

Cigarettes, alcohol, poor diet and little exercise – who maintains such a lifestyle, lives shorter. People, in which all four trucks are part of everyday life to lose, twelve years of life compared with those that perform exemplary in these areas. These factors are known individually as unhealthy, as they are problematic in combination, could now prove a long-term study impressive. Researchers at the University of Oslo, Norway evaluated from British adult health data.

Mid-80’s had completed questionnaires on their 4886 British way of life. In detail, they were asked if they smoke, less than three times a day eat fruit and vegetables, exercise less than two hours a week sport and whether they consume more alcohol (equivalent to seven glasses of wine per week for women, ten glasses for men). For every bad property awarded scientists a point. After 20 years they checked which of the participants had died and of what.

The result: about one in five people had died in the meantime – 431 from cardiovascular diseases, 318 with cancer and 331 from other causes. Each dot in the risk factors increased the statistical probability to bless the early Temporal: Those participants who did four points had to die, compared with a zero point three times as high risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer. The risk was for all other causes of death over four times. Overall, the mortality rate of people in line with all four bad qualities to the level when they were twelve years older.

The author team led by Elisabeth Kvaavik sees the result of hope. “Small, achievable lifestyle changes are likely to have a significant impact both for individuals and for the whole population,” write the researchers. Sports, healthy diet and stop alcohol and cigarettes should promote the health necessarily.

Pregnancy: Frightened Women Have Smaller Babies

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:26:01 +0000

The emotional world of a pregnant woman apparently influenced the development of the baby. Women with severe and chronic anxiety disorders during pregnancy have smaller and lighter children.

The researchers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, analyzed data from 763 women. About half the study participants were African American, the other Caucasian descent. The women were on average 23 years old and belonged to the low come in layers. All participants had undergone standardized psychological tests. In addition, she and her child in the fourth and seventh month of pregnancy and examined shortly after birth.

It was found that anxious pregnant women bringing children into the world smaller and lighter than women without anxiety symptoms. Particularly significant was the context in the last trimester of pregnancy. In the first six months of pregnancy is very strong anxiety interfered with the child’s development. The influence of anxiety was independent of other risk factors such as alcohol or drug use, education and ethnicity.

One possible explanation for the influence of anxiety on the child’s development will see the scientists in elevated stress hormone levels in anxious mothers. The stress hormones in the blood of pregnant women suppress the growth of education in the child, which consequently remains in growth. The researchers therefore recommend to treat anxiety disorders in pregnancy. For health care begins even before birth, the authors write.

Alcohol: Already Small Quantities Increase the Breast Cancer Risk

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:17:57 +0000

A glass wine each evening is sufficient, in order to increase the cancer risk – above all for breast cancer – with women. The more one drinks, all the same whether liquor, wine or beer, is the higher the risk.

The team around Naomi everything of the University OF Oxford estimates that approximately eleven per cent of the diagnosed cases of cancer of the breast are to be led back on the consumption of alcohol of the women. The study concentrated on women, who consumed small up to middle quantities alcohol. This quantity was defined with at the most three alcoholic beverages daily or less. During the seven years a quarter of the participating 1.3 million women indicated current study to drink no alcohol.

Of the women, took nearly all little than 21 drinks drank the alcohol in the week to itself. It was average a quantity of ten gram alcohol per day. That is somewhat more than in a small beer, 125 milliliters wine or a spirit is contained.

Got sick to nearly 13 per cent of the Mrs. middle age with chest, liver, rectum, mouth or throat cancer. With regular consumption of alcohol a sample developed. An alcoholic beverage increased the risk with women until 75 years with all kinds of cancer around six per cent. The percentages for the individual forms were different. An alcoholic beverage on the day increased the cancer of the breast risk around twelve per cent, with mast intestine cancer was it ten per cent, with esophagus cancer 22 per cent, with mouth cancer 29 per cent and with throat cancer 44 per cent. On the population put down that means 15 additional illnesses per 1.000 woman.

Note: Also different studies already showed that regular consumption of alcohol can increase the breast cancer risk. However to certain ingredients in beer and wine – the so-called Phenol-cancer-restraining and anti-oxidative effects one repeats.