Community | September 18, 2009 | 4 comments

Bad habits take a decade off life: study

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090918/hl_afp/healthdiseaseheartlifespan

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Middle-aged male smokers with high cholesterol and blood pressure die, on average, a decade sooner than peers without any of these heart disease risk factors, according to a study published on Friday.

Many studies have shown that not smoking, eating healthily and exercising cut heart disease rates.

But few have tackled the problem from the other end: to what extent is life expectancy shortened by having these heart disease risk factors?

To find out, researchers from Oxford University sifted through data from 19,000 male civil servants who were examined in the late 1960s when they were 40 to 69 years old.

Participants provided detailed information about their medical history, lifestyle and smoking habits, and doctors recorded their weight, blood pressure, lung function, cholesterol and blood sugar levels.

More than 7,000 of the surviving participants were re-evaluated in 1997, 28 years after the initial examination.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), found that the men who faced a triple risk threat at the outset were two-to-three times more likely to have died of a heart-related problem than men free of all three risk factors.

On average, their lives were shortened by a decade, the study found.
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4 comments // Bad habits take a decade off life: study

  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
  • RFIDemocracy
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      RFIDemocracy  

    • 'Life is short, party naked!'

      And don't obsess on that 'heaven' thing. I heard a rumor it's just a strip mall with some shitty stores that aren't eeven open on Sundays.

      Seriously though, what's a decade amongst friends?

    • 2 years ago
  • StrifePeddler
  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • The quality of life lived is more important than the length of one life. The infatuation on longevity in the United States is amusing. When the time comes and I drool away the day or piss myself wet and stupid my healthcare proxie knows what to do.
      End my life

      tommic

    • 2 years ago
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