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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record refines
Healthy working life at 50 averages 11 years across 28 countries
Across 175,318 adults aged 50 and over in 28 countries, 10.98 of the 33.59 years of life expectancy remaining at age 50 were spent both healthy and in work.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate new
Mortality long after Texas cyclones is raised only in socially vulnerable counties
In Texas between 1968 and 2018, tropical cyclone exposure raised all-cause mortality for years after landfall only in counties classified as socially vulnerable.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection confirms
Adults with more social ties have slightly lower inflammation across 50 studies
A meta-analysis of 50 studies found that adults with more social ties had slightly lower inflammation, the pooled correlation being -0.037 after adjustment for age.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection refines
Chronic loneliness is associated with worse health and functioning in older adults
Among 4,090 older adults in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, persistent loneliness was associated with worse general health, functional capacity and mental wellbeing, and with more unhealthy behaviours.
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access confirms
Home-based care use varies across Japanese municipalities despite universal insurance
Across 1,494 Japanese municipalities, use of home-based long-term care clustered geographically, higher in the west and lower in central and northern regions, despite universal long-term care insurance.
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Health todayFrailty and multimorbidity refines
Genetic score adds little to age and sex in predicting osteoporosis in Japan
In 8,711 Japanese adults, a bone density genetic score added little to age and sex, though the lowest-scoring fifth had 1.42 times the osteoporosis incidence of the middle fifth.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 refines
Review sets out why bone is lost during weight loss
Weight loss raises bone turnover and lowers bone mineral density, with greater loss in older and leaner adults and after severe caloric restriction such as incretin mimetics or bariatric surgery.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics refines
Coinfection with respiratory viruses did not worsen COVID-19 in hospitalised children
Among 938 children admitted at Canadian centres that tested every respiratory admission, 18.6% had a viral coinfection, which carried no higher odds of severe COVID-19.
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Health today
Crisis in UK General Practice
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Health today
COVID hospitalisations & variants
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Behavioural science
Impact of COVID on risk perception
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Behavioural science
Masking the future
