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Health todayHeart and stroke refines
Cardiovascular disease burden in Europe is similar by sex but differs in composition
In 2023 women had 55% of cardiovascular cases and 50% of deaths, but less ischaemic heart disease.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
Temperature-attributable cardiovascular deaths in Europe may double by late century
Under high emissions, temperature-attributable cardiovascular deaths in Europe rise from 31.4 to 62.4 per 100,000, with heat-attributable rates up 472%.
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Health todayFrailty and multimorbidity refines
Plant-based diet indices and frailty in 8,628 older adults across three ageing cohorts
Higher overall plant-based scores were associated with lower frailty risk (ORs 0.71-0.80), unhealthful scores with higher risk (1.24-1.41).
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics confirms
Vaccinated adults had a quarter lower odds of long COVID in the Omicron era
An updated meta-analysis of 18 observational studies estimated the odds of long COVID at 0.75 in vaccinated adults against unvaccinated, and 0.63 for boosted against primary course only.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection refines
Loneliness predicts psychological distress better than other social measures
In a 29-country European survey of 48,377 respondents, loneliness was the strongest social predictor of psychological distress, and the other social measures together added 0.006 to the AUC.
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access confirms
Education and wealth are associated with lower biological age in 12 European countries
In 10,043 to 14,015 SHARE adults aged 50-75, every measure of socioeconomic advantage was associated with a lower estimated biological age, though the gap differed between the 12 countries.
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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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