To deliver on pledges from the Trump administration to make America healthy again, policymakers will need to close gaps in longevity among racial and ethnic groups.

A new study published by Cambridge University Press on Thursday found individuals with attention-deficit and hyperactivity ...

A large study found that men lost seven years of life expectancy and women lost nine years, compared with counterparts ...

Of the 10 areas with the lowest expectancy, six are in Scotland, three are in the north of England and one is in Wales. There was a similar pattern for female life expectancy with the 10 highest ...

Female life expectancy at birth in the most deprived areas significantly ... For all measures, the changes in the SII since 2015 to 2017 were not statistically significant. Table 1: Slope Index of ...

healthy lives New research from the United Kingdom has revealed that life expectancy can decrease by an estimated 22 minutes for women and 17 minutes for men due to a single cigarette. In 2000 ...

To put that into perspective, a pack of 20 cigarettes can shorten a person’s life expectancy by seven hours. “With smoking, it doesn’t eat into the later period of your life that tends to be ...

“Most smokers realize that smoking could shorten their life but not the impact of each cigarette they smoke,” the research read. “Smoking primarily eats into the relatively healthy middle years rather ...

Type 1 diabetes can take years off your life. Reduced life expectancy is one of the condition’s most frightening complications. But there is reason for optimism. Although studies have suggested ...

Here's a new perspective to motivate yourself (or someone else) to give up smoking: every cigarette smoked can take 20 minutes off your life expectancy, according to experts. Quit for a week, and your ...

News and the Today show and is a Boston University graduate. For every cigarette an individual smokes, their life expectancy shrinks by 20 minutes overall, according to a new study out of the U.K ...

If you’re thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking, it might help to know that new research says it could extend your life expectancy. Each cigarette someone smokes ...