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Climate Change. Cardiovascular health has been improved because of CO2 emissions. Or, if not playing the blame everything on climate change game - Less smokin
by aaron695 5y ago
Climate Change.
Cardiovascular health has been improved because of CO2 emissions.
Or, if not playing the blame everything on climate change game - Less smoking, less PM 2.5 pollution, better climate control in buildings have all also helped cardiovascular health.
(Missing from the article - declining incidence is more pronounced among men than women)
- HPsquared 5y agoHas average cardiovascular health improved though? I'd have thought it must be worse, with the obesity epidemic and all.
- aaron695 5y agoMortality is dropping in the richer countries https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2016/16_0211.htm https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2016/16_0211.htm (2014) Smoking and medicine. People seemed to think smoking was lung cancer, when it was always about cardiovascular health. (It was also about smoke not tobacco) Poorer countries climbing, a lot due to other diseases lowering. You'd need to really drill down to find where to link it to Alzheimers, assuming this best guess from the researchers is correct. It seems a very good guess, it fits in a few places.