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Article: Lower health risks regardless of age
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- Courier News (Elgin, IL)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2008
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The chances of coming down with a life-threatening disease change in some surprising ways across someone's life span, according to the editors of Consumer Reports On Health.
CR On Health's analysis of the age-related mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other sources found, for example, that firearms kill more teenagers than all natural causes combined; that even people older than 65 need to worry about HIV infection; and that while cancer is a concern throughout life, the types of cancers someone needs to be aware of - and the preventive steps that should be taken - differ depending on age.
Consumer Reports on Health identified some of the latest ...