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MONDAY, April 30, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Adopting a healthy lifestyle, with five low-risk lifestyle factors is associated with increased life expectancy, according to a study published online April 30 in Circulation<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Yanping Li, M.D., Ph.D., from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues used data from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study to define five low-risk lifestyle factors, and estimated hazard ratios for the association of total lifestyle score with mortality. The lifestyle factors were never smoking, body mass index of 18.5 to 24.9 kg\/m\u00b2, \u226530 minutes vigorous exercise\/day, moderate alcohol intake, and a high diet quality score.<\/p>\n
The researchers documented 42,167 deaths during up to 34 years of follow-up. For adults with five versus zero low-risk factors, the multivariable adjusted hazard ratios were 0.26, 0.35, and 0.18 for all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality, respectively. The population-attributable risk for non-adherence to five low-risk factors was 60.7, 51.7, and 71.7 percent, respectively, for all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality. For women and men who adopted zero low-risk lifestyle factors, the life expectancy at age 50 years was 29.0 and 25.5 years, respectively; in contrast, for those who adopted all five low-risk factors, projected life expectancy was 43.1 and 37.6 years, respectively.<\/p>\n
“Adopting a healthy lifestyle could substantially reduce premature mortality and prolong life expectancy in U.S. adults,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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