cardiovascular disease

Cancer the leading cause of death in Netherlands

Jul 10 '18 09:19

Cancer was the most common cause of death in the Netherlands last year, with 31 percent of the 150 thousand people who passed away dying of the disease, Statistics Netherlands reported on Tuesday.

More men than women died of cancer last year. 35 percent of the men who died in 2017 died of cancer, compared to 27 percent of women. The number of people who died of cancer also increased. Last year 47 thousand people in the Netherlands died of cancer, compared to 45,279 in 2016, 44,195 in 2015 nd 42,984 in 2014.

Get off your butts: Dutch health council says people need to move around more

Aug 22 '17 14:20

Health

For the first time ever, the Health Council of the Netherlands warned against the consequences of sitting still for long periods of time in its new Movement Guidelines. The general gist of the guidelines is: moving is good, moving more is better, the council wrote in the report.

Nearly 6,100 euthanasia cases in Netherlands last year; Up 10 pct

Apr 13 '17 14:00

Health

The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands increased by 10 percent last year. A total of 6,091 people died through euthanasia, 557 more than in 2015, according to an annual report by the euthanasia review committees, AD reports.

Most of the euthanasia cases involved cancer. There were also many cases of nervous system disorders and cardiovascular diseases. The number of euthanasia cases involving patients with dementia, psychiatric disorders or old age ailments also increased.

Younger Dutch generations at higher risk of morbid obesity

Mar 31 '16 10:59

Health

Younger Dutch generations are more unhealthy than the generations preceding them and are at greater risk of morbid obesity and high blood pressure, according to a major study done by the RIVM

Cardiovascular disease to increase dramatically by 2040 says health auth.

Dec 10 '15 08:37

Health

The number of people suffering from cardiovascular disease in the Netherlands will increase by more than half a million by 2040. In that year 1.4 Dutch people will have had a heart attack or stroke or will be suffering from heart failure, compared to 850 thousand in 2011, according to calculations public health institute RIVM did for the Heart Foundation

Fatty acids in pregnancy linked to cardiovascular disease in kids

Aug 13 '15 14:55

Health

High amounts of essential fatty acids consumed during pregnancy may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in the kids.

WHO: As Europe gets fatter, the Dutch get thinner

May 6 '15 11:27

Health

Europe will have an obesity epidemic on its hands by 2030, the World Health Organization warned at a European Congress on Obesity in Prague on Wednesday. The WHO called it a "major crisis".

Dangerous air pollution levels around Schiphol: Environmentalists

Dec 12 '14 14:20

Health Nature

TNO determined that the amount of particulate matter in residential areas in Amsterdam and Amstelveen is two times higher than normal when the wind is blowing from the direction of Schiphol.

Cancer, cardiovascular disease top killers in Netherlands

Dec 12 '14 13:56

Health

In 2013 the most common causes of death in the Netherlands was cancer and cardiovascular disease. Of the more than 141 thousand people who died in 2013, 42 thousand (30 percent) died of cancer and 38 thousand (27 percent) died of cardiovascular diseases.

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