Sizable Mortality Risk Differences for Healthy versus Unhealthy Lifestyles in Later Life

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/10/sizable-mortality-risk-differences-for-healthy-versus-unhealthy-lifestyles-in-later-life/

Researchers here look at a sizable set of epidemiological data for people in their 70s, and note that the difference in outcomes between healthy and unhealthy lifestyles is sizable. This is much as one might expect from other studies of late life mortality and its relationship with lifestyle choices. It is certainly possible that the next few decades will see the advent of first generation age-slowing and rejuvenation therapies that will add a decade to human life span, but why make it harder to achieve additional years of good health?

Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as smoking, high alcohol consumption, poor diet, or low physical activity are associated with morbidity and mortality. Public health guidelines pro…

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