A method of summarising collective health within a group by calculating the average time members are expected to remain alive. Most used at the country level where the statistic is how long a newborn child is expected to live if current rates of death remain constant.
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Can some species of jellyfish live forever?
I came accross one of those top 10 video today on youtube (while I remember trying to learn more about particle filter...) and it was about the longest living creatures. I already knew lobster and ...
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Do folks who live with a pet have a longer life?
I have heard many times that if you keep a pet, you tend to live longer. I have many friends and family members whom have pets and no pets, and I can't seem to see a pattern.
Could the environmental, ...
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Do married people live longer than single people?
It is a common belief that married people live longer than single people.
For example, The Telegraph reports:
Men and women who are married or in long-term relationships are more likely to ...
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Is a short-term fast beneficial for maintaining good health and extending life expectancy?
This is claimed in Sweden's second-biggest newspaper.
My translation:
"I have started to short-term fast.[...] The reason is that lots of world leading scientists that study aging and the brain ...
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Do solar cycles influence life expectancy?
In a paper describing the effects of radiation on the human genome at peaks of solar cycles it is claimed:
Those born in peaks of solar cycles lived an average of 1.5 years (CL 1.3-1.7) less than ...
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Can a lower core temperature, lower caloric intake and low blood pressure prolong life?
In Season 4, episode 8 of Torchwood: Miracle Day, a character is said to have prolonged their life (not much, but definitely longer) by keeping their core temperature two degrees lower than normal, ...
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Is this graph of life expectancy pre and post Chernobyl accurate?
Is the following graph of male life expectancy of ex-Soviet states spanning Chernobyl accurate?
The source of the graph is a blog post (チェルノブイリ事故後の平均寿命), which according to google translate means ...
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Does flossing your teeth regularly increase your lifespan?
According to Life Tips:
Regular flossing, long considered an essential part of daily dental
cleansing, has been found to have a positive effect on your life
expectancy, increasing it by up to ...
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Was the average life expectancy of a US soldier in Vietnam 15 minutes? [closed]
A friend of mine quoted this statistic today and I was a little skeptical. Wikipedia tells me that about 536,000 soldiers from the U.S. went to Vietnam and about 58,000 of them died, but I'm not sure ...
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Does Resveratrol increase human life expectancy?
Resveratrol is a buzz word in health science research. It is hailed
as the discovery of “the fountain of youth” . In the past 10 years
over 500 medical research studies were performed. ...
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Do police officers and firefighters have a shorter than average life expectancy?
I have run across several references that mention that police officers and firefighters have a much shorter life expectancy than average. Is this claim true? Are there any reputable studies that have ...
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Does Korean ginseng develop brain efficiency and prolong life?
From Proceeding of the Mini Workshop Southeast Asia Germany Alumni Network (SEAG):
"... the Korean ginseng (Panax schinsen) has been well known as a tonic,
treatment for Diabetes Mellitus, ...
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Are left-handed people more likely to die younger than right-handed people?
Several sources claim that left-handed people have shorter life-spans:
A left-handed academic from North Dakota has revealed that left-handers tend to die younger than right-handers. The ...
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Is it true that the stress e-mail administrators go through during a crisis is equal to a divorce? [closed]
During a recent escalation call with Microsoft, one of the senior email troubleshooters told me that the stress that occurs with an email outage is comparable to a normal person going through a ...
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Will eating a lot of junk food shorten your life expectancy?
I just ate an entire medium pepperoni pizza for dinner and my roommate started lecturing me on how I'm gonna die in my 30s.
Does eating fatty and sugary foods make your life any shorter?
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Was the world life expectancy only 30 years at 1900?
In this article, About.com article on Life Expectancy they claim:
In 1900, the world life expectancy was approximately 30 years
I've also the same claim elsewhere.
However, this doesn't jibe ...
