Life expectancy continued a slow but steady climb ... deaths from chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and COPD An ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...

Our objective was to evaluate the impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy and years lived with and without CVD in older adults. The study included 6636 individuals (3750 women ...

Attention towards risk factors for COPD other than smoking is increasingly being recognised in studies of environmental, occupational, and even early life factors. Although previous studies have ...

Adults who had an above-average BMI trajectory as children had an increased risk for COPD after age 40 years ... to improve respiratory health in a life course perspective,” Frida Richter ...