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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

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Worrying increases heart attack risk

Categories: Lifestyle research

Chronic anxiety can significantly increase the risk of a heart attack for men. Californian scientists used a cohort study involving 735 men (mean age 60). Each of the men completed psychological testing and was in good cardiovascular health at baseline in 1986. The researchers investigated whether anxiety characteristics independently predicted the onset of myocardial infarction over a 12-year per ...

Healthy seniors live longer

Categories: Lifestyle research, Geriatric

Healthy lifestyle behaviors during the early elderly years are associated not only with enhanced life span in men but also with good health and function during older age. In a prospective cohort study of 2357 healthy men, mean age 72 at baseline, American researchers examined modifiable factors associated with a life span of 90 or more years and late-life function in men. At the beginning of the s ...

It's never too late to get healthy

Categories: Lifestyle research

Even if you are over 65, improving your diet and lifestyle can still lead to significant health benefits and decrease your chances of developing chronic diseases. A literature review by a US author has found that adhering to a low-calorie, low-fat diet, which is high in fruit and vegetables, along with a regular exercise plan, can help the elderly stave off age-related diseases. According to the p ...

Exercise slows ageing

Categories: Lifestyle research

Individuals who are physically active are biologically younger than those with sedentary lifestyles. British investigators surveyed 2401 twin volunteers using questionnaires on physical activity level, smoking status, and socioeconomic status. The researchers then examined the length of telomeres (repeated DNA sequences found at the ends of chromosomes) in the twins' white blood cells. Leukocyte t ...

Four healthy habits add 14 years to life

Categories: Lifestyle research

Combining four healthy lifestyle habits can add as much as 14 years on to your lifespan. UK researchers examined the relationship between lifestyle and mortality in a cohort of 20,000 people aged 45-79, with no known cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline. Participants scored one point for each health behaviour: current non-smoking, not physically inactive, moderate alcohol intake (1-14 unit ...

Drink to healthy ageing

Categories: Lifestyle research

People who start drinking alcohol in later life immediately decrease their risk of developing cardiovascular disease. A US study examined a cohort of 7697 adults aged 45-64 years, who had no history of cardiovascular disease at baseline, over a 10-year period. Of participants who were nondrinkers at baseline, 6% began moderate alcohol consumption within a six-year follow-up period. After four year ...

Middle age makes you miserable - official

Categories: Lifestyle research

The biggest risk for a midlife crisis is not divorce, ill health or losing one's job, it’s merely the act of aging itself. Researchers from Great Britain and the USA analysed data spanning more than 35 years, 2 million people and 80 countries. They looked at measures of mental health, such as depression, anxiety, mental well-being, happiness and life satisfaction and correlated them with age ...

Bra size linked to diabetes

Categories: Lifestyle research

Breast size in early adulthood may predict women's risk of developing diabetes later in life. Canadian researchers carried out a secondary analysis of data collected from a cohort study of 92,000 women, mean age 38 at baseline, which began in 1989. The women's bra cup sizes at the age of 20 were taken from the answers given in a questionnaire. A total of 1,844 new cases of type 2 diabetes arose du ...

Eczema linked with poor intestinal flora at birth

Categories: Lifestyle research, Allergies

Babies with only a limited variety of bacteria in their faeces one week after birth are more likely to develop atopy as infants. Swedish researchers collected faecal samples collected from 35 infants at one week of age and used molecular techniques to analyse the diversity of their intestinal microflora. Reduced microbial diversity of early faecal microbiota was significantly associated with the d ...