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Yale's School of Medicine has recruited its second major Harvard faculty member this year as part of an aggressive three-pronged expansion into clinical neuroscience, cancer, and cardiovascular disease research—initiatives sustained despite ongoing financial duress...
Lead author Jürgen Rehm of the University of Toronto tells TIME that the increase was primarily the result of more women taking up drinking. He says the increase in the rate of alcohol-related deaths is particularly troubling because the researchers took into account the cardiovascular benefits of moderate drinking and because the majority of the world's population currently abstains from alcohol. But that is likely to change as India and China become wealthier and their citizens find themselves with more disposable income, he says. That, in turn, is likely to further increase the death rate unless...
Today CNCDs such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and cancer are responsible for about 44% of all premature deaths. Globally, twice as many people die from CNCDs as from infectious diseases, maternal and infant problems and malnutrition combined. "These disorders are becoming more and more important as we see better longevity and economic improvement around the world," says Abdallah Daar, a professor of public-health sciences at the University of Toronto. (See how not to get sick...
...spread of disease goes unchecked, researchers estimate that some 388 million people worldwide will die of one or more CNCDs over the next 10 years. The economic cost will be immense. There may be weeks or months of lost work per patient, along with expensive health care, before cardiovascular disease or cancer results in death. CNCDs are projected to cost China, India and Britain $558 billion, $237 billion and $33 billion, respectively, over the next decade...
...heart disease and stroke. That's no surprise; the bigger you are, the more likely your blood pressure will nudge higher, say researchers. But Tucker says the findings "really open our eyes to how important it is to monitor blood pressure," along with other factors that may contribute to cardiovascular health such as strength and resistance training, the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and salt intake. Going forward, says Tucker, those behaviors will be studied in depth on a leaguewide basis...