Are Hospitals the Safest Place for Women to Give Birth?
There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned out fine, or at least fine enough, since you were eventually born too and are now reading this. But since the late 1960s, very few babies in the United Kingdom or the United…
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Neel Shah
This Test Predicts Your Risk of Dying in the Next Five Years
There is a great interest in understanding what might predict life expectancy in the general population. We already know several risk factors that have a substantial impact on mortality. For example, smoking, lack of exercise and increased body mass index have been shown to increase the risk of dying earlier. Most previous studies have investigated…
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Erik Ingelsson and Andrea Ganna
