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“In two large prospective cohorts, replacing 5 percent of energy from saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat, monounsaturated fat, or whole-grain carbohydrate was associated with lower coronary heart disease risk. Refined carbohydrates did not show the same benefit.”

“Compared with earlier chronological-age clocks, PhenoAge better predicts mortality, healthspan, physical function, cancer risk, coronary heart disease risk, and Alzheimer's disease-related outcomes.”

“The age at which 2 out of every 100 participants had developed coronary heart disease came more than 10 years earlier in men than in women. Stroke showed no meaningful difference between men and women, with both reaching similar risk levels at about the same ages.”

“In the United States, heart disease is the #1 killer of both women and men. 50% of men and 64% of women who die suddenly of heart disease have no previous symptoms of the disease. Walking is moderate exercise...try to find an excuse to walk somewhere instead of drive!”

“That overlap may help explain why the two healthier approaches showed similarly lower rates of coronary heart disease. The findings are observational, so they cannot show that the eating patterns caused the differences in heart disease risk.”

“FTA: > The inability of older adults to identify scents is a strong predictor of death within five years. Almost 40% of those who failed a smelling test died during that period, compared to 10% of those with a healthy sense of smell. Olfactory dysfunction predicted mortality better than a diagnosis of heart failure or cancer.”

“Cancer follows a risk curve that is a bit more like a linear dose-response. For instance, for those smoking >20 cigarettes per day, the risk of dying from lung cancer is >23 times higher, whereas those who smoke 1 to 4 cigarette per day have a 3-fold higher risk than nonsmokers.”

“Clinic staff regularly visited participants in their villages to record infections and inflammation, heart disease risk factors, diet, and physical activity. The participants visited a nearby city to complete a computerized tomography (CT) scan of their heads to measure brain volume.”