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Every year, McGill students curse the campus terrain as they trudge up the hill towards the Life Sciences Complex. However, the health benefits of climbing up the hill are abundant. Research has shown that for those able, walking reduces the rates of cardiometabolic diseases like diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes.
A new study conducted by a group of McGill researchers explores the link between a city’s walkability scores and rates of cardiometabolic disease and mortality.
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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ New research in the January 2021 issue of
JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds more than a third of eligible people miss timely screening tests for colorectal cancer and at least a quarter appear to miss timely screening tests for breast and cervical cancers. The study comes from the University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in Alberta, Canada, with findings based on self-reported results from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) from 2007-2016. According to the author, the results also point to evidence of screening disparities being linked to lower socioeconomic status and identifiable minority race echoing a similar study conducted in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control.
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Drawing data from the Canadian Community Health Survey for 2007 through 2016, cannabis use among the 4,667 participants rose from 27.7 per cent in 2007-2008 to 34.4 per cent in 2015-2016. Weed use increased throughout the study period, the study adds.
An earlier study by U of A researchers, involving adult patients attending cancer centres, cited 43 per cent of participants reported any lifetime use of cannabis, the lion’s share of them getting their weed from friends, with just 10 per cent getting it from regulated medical dispensaries and six per cent by other means.
Of those who reported consuming cannabis within six months before the survey, 36 per cent were new users. “Their reasons for use included cancer-related pain (46 per cent), nausea (34 per cent), other cancer symptoms (31 per cent) and non-cancer-related reasons (56 per cent).