During the menopause transition, only 1 in 5 women have optimal scores using the American Heart Association’s health-assessment tool, known as Life’s Essential 8 (LE8). Among the tool’s eight components, four of them – blood glucose, blood pressure, sleep quality and nicotine use – are key in driving future cardiovascular risks, with sleep being particularly…
Participant characterization In total, 627 participants (394 women/233 men) were included in this study (Table 1 and Supplementary Table S2 in the Electronic Supplementary Material). The median age was 52.0 (43.0, 62.5) years, and men were significantly older than women (padjust < 0.001). Women had a significantly higher BMI than men (padjust = 0.006). Participants had…
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Study design and study population The study population originates from the population-based birth cohort BAMSE. The participants were recruited in 1994–1996, when all children born in four pre-defined municipalities in the northwestern and central parts of Stockholm, Sweden were identified through the population register and invited to participate (n = 7,221). Of these, 477 could never be…
In recent years, there has been a rise in popularity and subsequent consumption of both commercial and home-prepared smoothies due to the perceived health benefits of increasing fruit and vegetable intake in this way [1]. Under current public health guidance in the UK and Europe, smoothies are considered as fruit juices and should be limited…
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Urgent Care doctor David Bermejo will discuss ways to implement healthy lifestyle changes during a community lecture at the DeWees Center on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The lecture, titled “It’s Never Too Late for Lifestyle Medicine,” will cover how simple lifestyle changes — at any age — can help prevent and treat chronic disease and help people…
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A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity), and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. The researchers used data from nearly half a million UK Biobank participants to assess the influence…