Articles: adult.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Feb 2025
Individual and Combined Association Between Healthy Behaviors and All-Cause and Premature Mortality: A 22-Year Follow-up Cohort.
To analyze the impact of individual and combined healthy behaviors on all-cause and premature mortality risk in Mexican adults. ⋯ Over 22 years, adopting a healthier life was linked with lower all-cause and premature mortality risk, decreasing with the clustering of one additional healthy behavior. Law and policy changes as well as efforts to address the root causes of not adopting healthy behaviors in low- and middle-income countries, such as creating structural conditions for people to engage in physical activity or strong social marketing to raise awareness of the daily consumption of fruits and vegetables, are needed for improving health and delaying mortality.
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Idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS) is a rare fibrotic disease of the proximal airway affecting adult Caucasian women nearly exclusively. Life-threatening ventilatory obstruction occurs secondary to pernicious subglottic mucosal scar. Disease rarity and wide geographic patient distribution has previously limited substantive mechanistic investigation into iSGS pathogenesis. ⋯ Our novel data support an iSGS disease model where epithelial alterations facilitate microbiome displacement, dysregulated immune activation, and localized fibrosis. Overall, these results refine our understanding of iSGS and implicate shared pathogenic mechanisms with distal airway fibrotic diseases.
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The benefits of exercise for older adults are well known; however, most older adults do not meet recommendations for regular physical activity. Alternative methods of improving physical activity are important and can be effective at improving mobility. This analysis evaluated if participation in a Whole Health companion dog adoption program supported changes in balance and gait performance for veterans. The role of time veteran and dog spent being physically active together (i.e., walking) on observed balance and gait changes was also explored. ⋯ A Whole Health companion dog adoption intervention can improve gait, balance, physical functioning, and physical activity.
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