{"id":288426,"date":"2017-01-04T02:35:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T01:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/higher-altitude-means-much-lower-death-rates\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T02:35:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T01:35:55","slug":"higher-altitude-means-much-lower-death-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/higher-altitude-means-much-lower-death-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Altitude Means Much Lower Death Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By P.D. Mangan <\/em><\/p>\n

A new study from Austria reports \u201cLower mortality rates in those living at moderate altitude<\/a>\u201c. As we\u2019ll see here, higher altitude means much lower death rates.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a graph showing death from colon cancer in men, and breast cancer in women, by altitude:<\/p>\n

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Death rates from both of these cancers were about half as high at an altitude of greater than 1000 meters (3300 feet). \u00a0The study also found about a 30% reduction in deaths from coronary artery disease at >1000 meters.<\/p>\n

This accords well with a number of other studies. For example, \u201cLower Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke at Higher Altitudes in Switzerland<\/a>\u201c. This study found 22% less heart disease death for every +1000 meters in altitude, and 12% less stroke death.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssociation Between Alzheimer Dementia Mortality Rate and Altitude in California Counties<\/a>\u201c: This study found about half the death rate from Alzheimer\u2019s at an altitude of 1600 meters vs that at sea level.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s less diabetes at high altitude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Are there population differences, so that genes play a role? Not likely. The studies adjust for it, e.g. the first study confined results to towns of <20,000 population to control for migration from elsewhere; migrants overwhelmingly live in cities. Also, there\u2019s increased death from COPD and respiratory infections at higher altitudes<\/a>, so if there were some kind of general wealth or IQ effect, we wouldn\u2019t see this.<\/p>\n

Read the rest at Rogue Health and…<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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By P.D. Mangan A new study from Austria reports \u201cLower mortality rates in those living at moderate altitude\u201c. As we\u2019ll see here, higher altitude means much lower death rates. Here\u2019s a graph showing death from colon cancer in men, and breast cancer in women, by altitude: Death rates from both of these cancers were about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}