Friday, October 7, 2016 (HealthDay News) - Older people who eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, maintain a slim waist and stay away fro...
Friday, October 7, 2016 (HealthDay News) - Older people who eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, maintain a slim waist and stay away from smoking can expect more years without disability, according to a new study.
"There is great concern in society, the longer life be a great burden for society," said co-author Dr. Anne Newman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Aging and the health of the population.
"This study shows that a longer life was also a better life in people with a healthy lifestyle," he said.
Bottom line, Newman said, is that those who might have healthier habits expect to live about 80 percent of the remaining years without hindrance. In contrast, among those who have "habits the lowest level of health, only 55 to 60 percent of [his] years remaining without disabilities were," he added.
"Therefore, we can say that a healthy lifestyle, which was important later in life to stay healthy and without disabilities," Newman said.
For the study, screened the Newman team through data on nearly 5,900 men and women over 65 years. First, all are fully mobile and independent living in Sacramento County, California. Forsyth County, North Carolina; Washington County, Md.; and Allegheny County, Pa.
From 1990 and for another 25 years, the researchers the habits of study participants followed twice a year. These habits are smoking, alcohol, physical activity and diet, weight and condition of the socialization routines.
died towards the end of the investigation period, about nine out of ten participants. On average, women usually live 15 years after the start of the study, and almost 11 of those years have characterized as without disabilities. This meant that they no difficulty performing routine daily activities had as feeding, bathing, dressing, getting in and out of bed or a chair, and walking around the house.
The men in the study lived an average of 12 years and is considered free of disability for about 10 of those years.
But the lifestyle was found to have an effect on the risk of disability.
Adjusted for factors such as age, race, income, education, found marital status and current health problems in the long run, the study's authors, that those who led a healthier lifestyle live longer and with fewer years of disability than those with life forms at least healthy.
In particular, overweight men and women have seen both their longevity and years of life reduces generally able to more than 7 percent, compared to those with normal weight.
Similarly, less healthy consumers saw both its longevity and years of life fall by nearly 4 percent.
And for every 25 additional blocks of a man or a woman, they went a week, longevity and years of life may increase by half a percentage point.
The results were published in the issue of October in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Dr. Gregg Fonarow, co-director of the preventive cardiology program at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the study suggests that "it's never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle and benefits to maintain heart health.
"The magnitude of benefit in terms of additional years of life without can be surprising to those factors related to disability too many," he said.
"[But] These results suggest that later in life or a healthy lifestyle can have potentially extend the life of the future, the life lived in good health without any hindrance," Fonarow said.
More informations
For more information about healthy life of older people at the National Institutes of Health in the United States.
