If he turns 50 and thinks that it is too late to change his paths, recent research says otherwise, as well as warns of classic health traps that can take him to an early grave.
A recent study, published in The New England Journal of MedicineHe discovered that five common risk factors for heart disease could reduce their life expectancy in more than a decade.
These risk factors are high blood pressure, high cholesterol obesityDiabetes and tuxedo.
“These five factors represent approximately 50% of the global load of cardiovascular diseases,” saying Dr. Christina Magnussen, deputy director of the Department of Cardiology of the Medical Center of the University of Hamburg-Ependorf in Germany.
“Our central question was how many additional years of life are possible if the thesis factors are absent or modified in the middle age.”
Their results, based on data of approximately 2 million people in 39 countries, are sobering: men with the five risk factors shortened their lives in almost 12 years, and women in 14.5 years, compared to those with none.
Without the five risk factors, they had a 68% chance of dying before the age of 90, which is an exactly low niece, but with the five, the risk fired up to 94%. For women, the jump was 53% to 88%.
But there is good news: the researchers discovered that managing the five could attack five additional years in their useful life, even if they do not change their paths until the mid -50.
According to previous investigations, smoking and Hypertension It was discovered that they were sausage criminals when it comes to heart disease.
Stop smoking around 55 added 2.1 years of life for women and 2.4 years for men.
Lowering high blood pressure at the same age delayed heart problems in 2.4 years for women and 1.2 years for men.
“Our findings require specific interventions that address specific risk factors, particularly the cash of the medium age critical decade. Hypertension and smoking should be the main focus of primary prevention,” Magnussen said.
Leave those two? You are on their way to additional entries. Address them all? You are playing the long game.
“The study shows that even around 50, people can make substantial changes in their lifestyle or prevention strategies on a personal level to significantly influence their life expectancy,” said Holger Thiele, director of the Center of the Heart, Leipzig.
