People who smoke, are overweight and have high blood pressure are on average 9 years more likely to develop serious illnesses such as cancer, strokes, degenerative brain diseases (dementia), cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic lung diseases. In addition, you will also die 6 years earlier than someone who lives a healthy life. This is shown by a large, long-term Rotterdam population study.
This is evident from a provisional result from the so-called Rotterdam Study. Since 1989, 9000 people have been followed in the Ommoord neighborhood of Rotterdam for this research. Dutch researchers published an interim result in the medical journal yesterday PLoS Medicine.
Among other things, records were kept of when someone was first confronted with a deadly disease. People who are overweight, smoke and have high blood pressure appear to contract such a disease on average nine years earlier than someone with a healthier lifestyle.
Professor of Epidemiology Arfan Ikram says: “We see a decrease in diabetes, lung disease and heart disease among people who live a healthy life”.
Heart disease, cancer, COPD and diabetes together account for 87 percent of first life-threatening illnesses in people with the three risk factors. In people with a healthy lifestyle, these four disorders are still, but on average years later, the first chronic disease that occurs in 65 percent.
Healthy living mainly delays heart disease, lung disease and diabetes, the study shows. But anyone who postpones or prevents illnesses through healthy living will eventually also be confronted with a life-threatening illness later in life. Postponement is not an adjustment in this case. The wish that everyone can live to be 100 years old in good health is still far from us for the time being.
Source: NOS.nl
A study between 1989 and 2012 and published in 2019…….
In the meantime, some progress will have been made in the development of medicines against those serious diseases, but well, it is always useful to know while it is of no use to you on the side.
I just looked at that study. Good design and execution. I do have a few comments.
Those 'seriously ill 9 years earlier and you live 6 years shorter'. Yes, the study states that you get those chronic conditions (cancer, diabetes, lung disease, dementia, heart disease) 9 years earlier), but the word 'serious' is nowhere to be found. Those chronic conditions can be mild and sometimes severe.
Furthermore, the '9 years earlier chronic conditions and 6 years earlier death' only applies to people who had ALL THREE risk factors: high blood pressure, obesity and smoking. This was only the case for 7% of the entire research group.
14.8% had no risk factor at all, 37.8% had one (1) risk factor, 40% had 2 risk factors and as mentioned, 7% had all three risk factors. The group with three risk factors (7%) is then compared to the group with no risk factors (14.8%).
80% of the study group had 1 or 2 risk factors. The research says nothing about the risks of this.
Everyone 100 years that is not to be hoped. Then there are too many living fossils around. Very bad for the environment too. The only cause of global warming is that there are too many people
Furthermore, it is a choice shorter life and intense life and lots of fun. Or longer boring life
Well, if you look at it that way, it would also be right that people who opt for a short and intensive life pay more for their health insurance. Because why should I contribute to their consciously chosen unhealthy lifestyle?
Sorry Peter, but the health insurance is also increased by the fossils who absolutely want to live to be 100 years old!
This is what the research says, dear Peter:
'Healthy living mainly delays heart disease, lung disease and diabetes, according to the research. But anyone who postpones or prevents illnesses through healthy living will eventually also be confronted with a life-threatening illness later in life. In this case, postponement is not adjustment.'
Do not delay adjustment. This means that people with a healthy and unhealthy lifestyle almost equally often get all those scary chronic diseases (healthy lifestyle: 90% and unhealthy lifestyle: 98%, which seems like a big difference, but it isn't). It's just that people with an unhealthy lifestyle get those chronic conditions 9 years earlier and die 6 years earlier (and they therefore also have those conditions 3 years longer).
The extra costs of that three years longer chronic condition are probably about equal to the savings of dying 6 years earlier (also think of 6 years of savings on old age pension and pension!)
In other words: it is very likely that the healthcare costs for people with a healthy and an unhealthy lifestyle are almost equal.
Hello Tino, fine. One just does. I don't mind and live my own life. I recently spoke to someone with diabetes 2. He could get rid of it with a diet and exercise. He didn't do that because he then had to eat things he didn't like and he didn't like sports. He preferred to sit on the couch in front of the TV with a bag of chips. So just inject pills and insulin, you don't have to change anything else. It's too sad for words...
Dear Peter, the math is not as simple as it seems. People with an unhealthy lifestyle, according to the experts, may spend more money on health care costs, but on the other hand, because they die earlier, they save the government money on state pensions and expensive costs of care for the elderly. In addition, many athletes also rely on medical care. Countless injuries, and therefore also absenteeism from work, are the direct result of their sports practice and the placement of a 'new' hip or knee later in life is often an indirect consequence. Incidentally, all those people who smoke and consume alcohol already pay some form of payment for their health costs in the form of excise taxes, depending on the amount soon as much or more than the nominal premium for health insurance. The 'sugar tax' will soon be introduced, so all sweet lovers will also pay for the consequences of their 'addiction'. In fact, we all contribute to the choices of others.
Shorter life also means a shorter period of AOW & pension benefits. Will people who opt for a short and intensive life be compensated? And a non-athlete cannot break his legs while skiing... saves a lot of healthcare costs. So someone who lives healthier is not necessarily cheaper for society. That clincher has been scientifically debunked many times before. A smoker generates more money for the government (in NL) than a non-smoker (earlier death, taxes, etc.)
But, give me a healthy long and intensive life with lots of fun. Exercising daily is fun, and without alcohol and cigarettes it can also be very fun.
The research shows that procrastination is not a loss and it therefore saves 6 years of life in which society has a large saving.
In addition, excise duties are levied on alcohol and cigarettes, whereby the less healthy people also contribute a lot to their treatment.
And if there is such an aversion to paying, then I agree with the young people that they are no longer willing to contribute for the elderly. Working 16 hours a week for free to support the baby boomers financially for the umpteenth time should also be over.
These people already pay more because they can never use state pension.
Aaaah, this cries out for a comment!
Intense living and lots of fun are apparently linked to unhealthy living.
In other words: apparently you can only have fun if you live an unhealthy lifestyle.
That is of course different for each person, everyone has their own choice. But I choose a healthy life, I'm 66, athletic, sporty, super fit, can 'play bridge' every day with a young lady and I'm glad I don't have to get my joy of life from liquor or inhaling toxic fumes during sitting idle in a bar for many hours. That's not to say I'm never in a bar, but that's purposefully with nice people (and a juice along with it) or purposefully to pick up a female 'bridg partner'.
YOU may still have such a healthy lifestyle, but if you work for the NL government as a soldier, you are just exposed to Cr6 in the paint or p10 (I thought) you just get sick, you just get cancer and you die . Or you get ammunition at your disposal, which kills you.
People in the petrochemical industry, painters and more also have to process the necessary chemicals, so that in the longer term you simply become ill and die. No matter how healthy you may live.
If Russia has a meltdown in their reactors and the radioactive material spreads all over Europe, your chance of getting cancer is higher and you will die. And they even released radioactive material a second time, about which little is known. No matter how healthy you may live.
Peter, luckily we in Thailand are not bothered by the threats from Russia.
However, it is dangerous in Thailand to go on the street. Killing, killing, and a lot of misery every day. Enjoy your life and when your time comes, you have to go, so I listen less to all those investigations, but watch what I eat and drink.