Teenage boys who are deprived of deep sleep are at higher risk of diabetes, according to researchers at Penn State. They found adolescent boys who did not get the most restful stage of sleep were more likely to develop insulin resistance. The same did not hold true for girls.
Women with high blood pressure and physically demanding jobs are three times more likely to develop heart disease. Those are the findings of European researchers who tracked more than 12,000 nurses. Nurses with hypertension who did a lot of lifting and carrying tripled their risk of heart problems.
Doctors in British Columbia said air pollution is the fourth highest risk factor for death around the world. More than 5.5 million people are said to die prematurely every year from air pollution.
Sources
1- Penn State College of Medicine
2- European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
3- University of British Columbia