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In 4,945 U.S. adults with asthma, depressive symptoms were linked to about 10 fewer months of survival over 15 years and a 41% higher adjusted death risk. Lower income accounted for about a …
Read articleAdults with type 2 diabetes who also had ADHD died at a higher rate than those without ADHD in a 2026 study of 1.9 million adults newly diagnosed with diabetes across 7 countries. They did n…
Read articleA 2026 Clinical Epigenetics study tracked DNA methylation biological age in 894 older adults and found that each 1-SD higher biological-age slope predicted 17-28% higher all-cause mortality …
Read articleIn a 2,411-person multinational twin-consortium study, depressive symptoms increased significantly as death approached. The strongest design check compared twins directly: twins who died had…
Read articleThe most-quoted figure on veteran suicide is “22 a day,” produced from 21-state death-certificate data for 1999–2010.2 The VA’s 2024 Annual Report — with mortality data through 2022 — puts t…
Read articleA 2026 NHANES mortality analysis found that adults with PHQ-9 depressive symptoms had lower long-term all-cause mortality when their CALLY index was higher: in the fully adjusted model, each…
Read articleA 2026 Australian ecological model found that 20-year-lagged cumulative population blood-lead burden was nonlinearly tied to motor neuron disease mortality (lead spline p = 0.00024), while n…
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