People who have surpassed the age of 110 represent a rare model of exceptionally successful aging. Despite their extreme age, many supercentenarians remain relatively free of severe infections, cancer, and other age-related diseases.
Children with severe congenital anomalies growing up in the most socially disadvantaged families have significantly worse chances of survival, with the social gap becoming more pronounced after the first year of life.
People with schizophrenia spectrum disorders or bipolar spectrum disorders accumulate chronic physical illnesses significantly faster, and over time, problems affect not just one organ, but several body systems at once.
Middle-aged adults who meet both aerobic and strength-training physical activity recommendations are less likely to report developing a range of serious chronic diseases in later years than those who meet neither recommendation.
Maternal vaping has been found to be a common cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) reported in New Zealand, particularly when the infant directly shared a bed with an adult.
People who were free of hypertension and diabetes and did not smoke by midlife lived, on average, almost 13 years longer without dementia than participants who had all three risk factors.
The authors' main finding was that genetic predisposition to an earlier age of first sexual experience was associated with a less favorable multidimensional aging profile, lower longevity, higher frailty, and less favorable self-rated health.
A meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies examining the association between handgrip strength and subsequent depressive symptoms or depression was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.
A new study in the journal Allergy found that children who got more than 30% of their daily energy from ultra-processed foods had a nearly four-fold higher risk of developing asthma in early school age compared to children with lower intakes of such foods.
This is not a clinical treatment trial or the development of a diagnostic test for "psychopathy by brain imaging." It is a large neuroimaging study in which the authors compared psychological scales of empathy and psychopathic traits with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of cortical brain structure in 804 adult male inmates.
