People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) frequently live well into adulthood. Advances in treatment have significantly increased the life expectancy for this condition. The median life expectancy ...

New research reveals poor sleep shortens life more than diet or exercise. Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen shares what happens to ...

Sleep has long been associated with overall health and wellbeing. Recent findings, however, suggest that sleep is more ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, disabling, inflammatory disease that damages your nerves. People with MS may live roughly seven years less than the general population, with an average life ...

Preventive interventions may be more beneficial and accurate when looking at life expectancy next to lag time to benefit, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

In the United States, insufficient sleep strongly correlates with life expectancy, even more than diet, exercise or social ...

A person's age is one of the best predictors of how much longer they are likely to live. This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is ...

Counties with a higher proportion of adults sleeping less than seven hours tended to have lower life expectancy, and the pattern held up year to year and in most states.

IgA nephropathy can shorten life expectancy by 10 years on average. Life expectancy can depend on several factors, including kidney function at diagnosis, protein levels in the urine, age, other ...

People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have a shorter-than-average life expectancy due to changes in muscles that affect breathing, heart activity, and other functions. However, treatment advances ...