“More individuals are living with multiple chronic conditions, impacting their health and daily lives,” said Yogini Chudasama, an epidemiologist and statistician at the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit at the University of Leicester’s Diabetes Research Centre.
“We found a healthy lifestyle, in particular abstinence from smoking, increased life expectancy by as much as 7 연령. Our study has important implications for the public’s health, as we hope our findings have shown that it’s never too late to make vital lifestyle changes,” she said in a press statement.
For women with at least two chronic conditions, even an “unhealthy” score on the four lifestyle factors was associated with living 3.5 years longer when compared to people who were given a “very unhealthy” score. ㅏ “건강한” score was linked to a gain of 6.4 년과 “very healthy” score was linked to a gain of 7.6 연령.
For men, the corresponding estimates were 1.5 연령, 4.5 년과 6.3 연령. 하나, the gain for those classed as “unhealthy” wasn’t considered statistically significant by the researchers.
In their analysis, the researchers said they accounted for individual factors like socioeconomic status, ethnicity and employment status.
The study had some limitations, 연구원들은 말했다: 이상 95% of participants were white and they were more affluent than the general population in the United Kingdom. It was an observational study and, as such, can only establish a link rather than cause.
The most common conditions for men were hypertension, asthma, 암, diabetes and angina, while for women they were hypertension, asthma, 암, depression and migraine.