Study: Too much stress may shorten life expectancy
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 17-03-2023
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The research also revealed that a lack of exercise strongly reduced
the life expectancy of 30-year-old men - by 2.4 years. On the other
hand, things such as the consumption of plenty of fruits and vegetables
could increase life expectancy: eating fruit by 1.4 years and eating
vegetables by 0.9 years. The same factors impacted the life expectancy
of both men and women.For 30-year-old women, example, smoking shortened
the life expectancy by 5.5 years, diabetes by 5.3 years, and heavy
stress by 2.3 years. The effects to the life expectancy of older people
were similar but smaller than in younger age groups.
Differences
between the life expectancies of men and women largely due to risk
factors that can be changed, according to the researchers. "What was
interesting about the study was how small the difference in the life
expectancy of 30-year men and women was based on the same risk factor
values - only 1.6 years," said study researcher Seppo Koskinen. The
lifestyle choices that increase mortality, such as smoking, heavy
alcohol use, unhealthy diet, and lack of exercise, are most common in
the population groups whose social position is the weakest, the study
said.