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Persistence of health habits and their relationship to mortality.
Lester Breslow,James E. Enstrom +1 more
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Both the health practices themselves and their relationship to mortality are shown to be reasonably stable over the 9 1 2 -year period of follow-up, lending support to the hypothesis that good health practices and not the initial health status of the survey respondents are largely responsible for the observed mortality relationships.About:
This article is published in Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 1980-07-01. It has received 461 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mortality rate.read more
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Physical Activity, All-Cause Mortality, and Longevity of College Alumni
TL;DR: With or without consideration of hypertension, cigarette smoking, extremes or gains in body weight, or early parental death, alumni mortality rates were significantly lower among the physically active than among less active men.
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Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes
TL;DR: In this article, a review analyzes whether realization of goal intentions is facilitated by forming an implementation intention that spells out the when, where, and how of goal striving in advance (i.e., if situation Y is encountered, then I will initiate goal-directed behavior X!).
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Mortality Associated With Sleep Duration and Insomnia
TL;DR: Patients can be reassured that short sleep and insomnia seem associated with little risk distinct from comorbidities, and Slight risks associated with 8 or more hours of sleep and sleeping pill use need further study.
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Family status and health behaviors: social control as a dimension of social integration.
TL;DR: Results indicate that marriage and presence of children in the home have a deterrent effect on negative health behaviors, and it is suggested that family roles promote social control of health behaviors which affect subsequent mortality.
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Sleep duration and mortality: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
Lisa Gallicchio,Bindu Kalesan +1 more
TL;DR: The findings indicate that both short sleepers and long sleepers are at increased risk of all‐cause mortality, and further research using objective measures of sleep duration is needed to fully characterize these associations.
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Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents
Lisa F. Berkman,S L Syme +1 more
TL;DR: The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts.
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Relationship of physical health status and health practices
TL;DR: Good practices are shown to be associated with positive health, and the relationship of these activities was cumulative; those who followed all of the good practices being in better health, even though older, than those who failed to do so.
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Relationship of health practices and mortality.
TL;DR: The relationship between health practices and mortality in the 5 1 2 years after a survey made in Alameda County, California in 1965 showed a striking inverse relationship with mortality rates, especially for men.
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Life-style and future health: Evidence from the Alameda County study
James A. Wiley,Terry C. Camacho +1 more
TL;DR: Cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical exercise, hours of sleep per night, and weight in relation to height are significantly associated with overall health outcomes 9 years later, controlling for initial level of health.
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