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Lifestyle after 50 determines death, study: Smoking should be avoided

Politiko 2025-04-11 09:09:52

Lifestyle after 50 determines death, study: Smoking should be avoided

It's logical, but when it's promoted by more than 120 researchers, it sounds even more urgent: After 50, men and women should avoid smoking, as well as high cholesterol and being overweight. It works.

50-year-olds who do not smoke, have normal blood pressure, do not have high cholesterol or diabetes and maintain a healthy body weight not only live longer, but are also protected from cardiovascular diseases for longer. This was discovered by scientists from the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) – together with around 120 researchers from around the world. For their study, the scientists evaluated data from more than two million people from 39 countries. The results were published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Five classic risk factors"

"The five classic risk factors high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, being underweight or overweight or obese and high cholesterol levels are responsible for about half of all cardiovascular disease worldwide," says Christina Magnussen, lead author and deputy director of the cardiology clinic at UKE. "We wanted to know how the absence or control of these factors affects longevity.

 

The study shows that women who at age 50 had none of these risk factors developed cardiovascular disease 13.3 years later and died 14.5 years later than women with all five risk factors. Men without these risk factors lived 10.6 years longer without cardiovascular disease and died an average of 11.8 years later than men with risk factors. Women who do not smoke at age 50 live 5.5 years longer without cardiovascular disease; for men it is 4.8 years.

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