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Health todayCancer refines
Depression recorded after cancer diagnosis and suicide risk in 755,079 South Korean adults
Cancer patients with no prior depression who were later diagnosed with it had a suicide hazard 4.76 times that of those without.
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Behavioural scienceSmoking and vaping refines
Seven in ten Korean heated tobacco and cigarette users moved to cigarettes
Among 7.26 million Korean adults screened between 2019 and 2023, users of heated tobacco or e-cigarettes were more likely to quit cigarettes, but also more likely to start smoking again.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 confirms
Lower education was the most consistent marker of obesity in Korean adults
Analysis of Korea's national health and nutrition survey for 2022 to 2024 found lower education the most consistent marker of obesity in adults, with income and employment less consistent.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics refines
Korea's 2025-26 avian flu outbreaks included an H5N1 genotype from Europe
Sequencing of H5Nx viruses from 62 poultry outbreaks and 63 wild bird cases in Korea found most H5N1 and H5N9 genotypes were reassortants, one of them a genotype from Europe.
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Health todayMental health new
Korean adults with depression and unstable incomes have 18% higher mortality
Among 735,922 Korean adults diagnosed with depression, those with the most variable annual incomes had 18% higher mortality over a mean 10.3 years than those with the most stable.
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Health todayHeart and stroke confirms
Abdominal obesity and high blood sugar rose in Korean screening from 2014 to 2023
Aggregated national health screening statistics for the Republic of Korea show abdominal obesity rising from 21.0% to 25.5% between 2014 and 2023, with hyperglycaemia and hypertension also higher.
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Health todayCancer new
Parathyroid cancer in Korea rose fivefold, and benign parathyroid disease faster still
In Korean national insurance data from 2005 to 2020, incident parathyroid cancer rose 5.0-fold and benign primary hyperparathyroidism 7.7-fold, with ten-year all-cause mortality raised in both against matched controls.
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Health todayDementia confirms
Slow walking and a low cognitive score at 66 predict dementia in Korea
Among 741,655 Korean adults screened at age 66, those with both a low cognitive test score and slow walking had 1.74 times the dementia risk over a mean 10.9 years.
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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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