early death

Lasting impacts of severe acute malnutrition are linked to high rates of disease and early death, even after treatment.

Previous studies have linked prolonged sitting — especially while watching television — to a variety of health problems, including diseases such as breast cancer, colorectal cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and early death.

"By 2060, more than two-thirds of children will belong to underserved, disenfranchised populations which traditionally have higher rates of cardiovascular disease and risk factors. Even after adjusting out the effect of inflation, we project a quadrupling specific to the health care costs related to cardiovascular disease, along with an extensive cost of lost productivity due to early death and disability."

There are references to her troubled childhood, beleaguered by the early death of her sick mother and the suffocating grips of her brother and father, but “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry” is less interested in the past than in Etero’s present and future — all the possibilities her life still contains, whether or not those around her can see it.

A decline in heart rate variability also occurs in people as they age and appears to predict an early death.