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Healthy lifestyle associated with reduced mortality risk in childhood cancer survivors

Excess mortality and causes of death in survivors

In addition to the importance of potentially modifiable risk factors, this report is the first to detail that the specific primary causes of death in long-term survivors are similar to the leading causes of death in the US population, occurring earlier in survivors.

“We identified that long-term survivors of childhood cancer are experiencing a large number of deaths in excess of what would be expected for the general, aging population,” said the first and corresponding author Stephanie Dixon, MD, MPH, St. Jude Department of Oncology. “We were the first to find that

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Five healthy habits may increase life expectancy | News

For immediate release: April 30, 2018

Boston, MA – Maintaining five healthy habits—eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, keeping a healthy body weight, not drinking too much alcohol, and not smoking—during adulthood may add more than a decade to life expectancy, according to a new study led by Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

Researchers also found that US women and men who maintained the healthiest lifestyles were 82% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 65% less likely to die from cancer when compared with those with the least healthy lifestyles over the course of roughly 30-years.

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Africa Records World’s Highest Gain In Healthy Life Expectancy Over Past Decade

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Africa recorded the world’s highest gain in life expectancy in the new WHO report.

Africa recorded the world’s highest gain in healthy life expectancy over the past decade. But the lack of sustainable finance for health systems is a major threat to the gains recorded.

Africa recorded the world’s highest growth in healthy life expectancy—or the number of years an individual is in a good state of health—between 2000 and 2019. Healthy life expectancy increased on average 10 years per person, the World Health Organization (WHO) assessment reported.

The Tracking Universal Health Coverage in the WHO African Region 2022 report

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by Alisha Putri•