{"id":17952,"date":"2018-04-17T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=17952"},"modified":"2018-04-07T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T04:35:14","slug":"arthritis-cut-your-death-risk-by-50-by-dumping-this-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2018\/04\/17\/arthritis-cut-your-death-risk-by-50-by-dumping-this-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthritis? Cut Your Death Risk By 50% By Dumping This Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Smoking_76570901_m-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Arthritis Cut Your Death Risk By 50% By Dumping This Habit\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>If you have been diagnosed with arthritis, you can cut your risk of dying 50% by cutting out one bad habit. This is according to a new study published in <em>Arthritis Care and Research.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We all know this habit is bad, but it\u2019s particularly bad for arthritics. In fact, you\u2019re 37% more likely to die than non-arthritics with the same bad habit.<\/p>\n<p>The research team wanted to answer two questions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Are smoking arthritis patients more likely to die than smoking non-arthritics?<\/p>\n<p>2. Does giving up smoking soon after an arthritis diagnosis cut the risk of death?<\/p>\n<p>They used the long-term Nurse&#8217;s Health Study to identify 938 arthritis patients and 8,951 age-matched non-arthritics to compare them against.<\/p>\n<p>They also gave their participants a questionnaire to examine their smoking and other potentially relevant behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>They found that 40% of newly diagnosed arthritics quit smoking and, after comparing them with the 36% of the non-arthritics who quit at approximately the same time, they found that both groups experienced the same benefits with the same subsequent mortality rate. <\/p>\n<p>Compared with those who continued smoking, the quitters reduced their chance of death by between 42% and 53%. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, arthritis patients who had given up smoking were no more likely than non-arthritic former smokers to die in subsequent years, but 42-53% less likely than continued smokers to die.<\/p>\n<p>But the real interesting finding was that smoking arthritis patients were 37% more likely to die than smoking non-arthritics were. Therefore, smoking is worse for rheumatoid arthritis patients than for their healthy peers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/?page_id=603\">But the real question is, are you ready to completely REVERSE your arthritis? That\u2019s what I did using the 3 simple steps found here\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been diagnosed with arthritis, you can cut your risk of dying 50% by cutting out one bad habit. This is according to a new study published in Arthritis Care and Research. We all know this habit is bad, but it\u2019s particularly bad for arthritics. In fact, you\u2019re 37% more likely to die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arthritis","category-articles"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Smoking_76570901_m-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}