Scientists have determined the most important decade for your health.
Smoking, drinking and being inactive According to a new study in the decade between 36 and 46, it is becoming more difficult to turn.
Every year a person remains an unhealthy habit, the damage is worse, the researchers said.
These habits gradually erode the metabolic and psychological health of a person until after 46 they are part of the biology of a person.
The study from Finland showed that when a person reaches 30, each extra decade of risky behavior deteriorated his health to 50 years and older.
“Even a single risky behavior increases the risk of premature death and diseases, but together with other health behavior the impact is cumulative,” the researchers concluded.
“Moreover, the impact of this behavior on health accumulates over a lifetime.”
People who smoked, drunk and physically inactive during their 1920s saw few negative effects at the time, but that behaviors caught them in what caused worse mental health, poorer self -assessment and doubled metabolic risks such as High blood pressureobesity, or diabetes By age their late thirty.
People who start with risky behavior that is young, such as smoking, are more likely to experience depression and poorer physical health in middle age
Finnish researchers collected patient data from a study for 1968 to 2021 out of 369 people.
Scientists calculated the current risk scores of people based on how much risky behavior they are currently maintaining, from zero behavior (no risk) to three (the highest risk, that is, smoking, drinking and being physically inactive).
A 36-year-old who smokes and drinks, but also exercises would receive a two, while a 50-year-old who stopped smoking but still drinks and does not train, get a score of one.
They also looked beyond what behavior a person now has. They looked at how many years a person maintained harmful habits, known as the temporary risk score.
People were told that they had to count how often they did every behavior at every age control point – 27, 36, 42, 50, 61. Someone who smoked at 27, 36 and 42 but therefore earned a temporary smoking score of three out of five.
They concluded that people who currently have that risky behavior had more depressive symptoms based on a scored questionnaire with 16 items, higher metabolic risks measured by markers such as high blood pressure, large waist and low ‘good’ HDL ‘HDL cholesterol, lower psychological welfare on the basis of a scored.
People who had that behavior now, as well as in decades, were even worse.
People who started smoking in the age of twenty and early in the 1930s, unlike those who started in the forty, were more than twice as likely to show depression symptoms and psychological welfare scores that were 2.3 times worse.
Likewise, people with metabolic risk factors such as high blood pressure early in life were twice as likely to experience chronic metabolic disorders compared to those who started experiencing those risk factors in middle age
Likewise, people with metabolic risk factors had twice as much chance of experiencing chronic metabolic disorders compared to those who started experiencing those risk factors in middle -aged.
Health themselves rated under people with poorer physical health asked in life double the decrease in self -assessment against those who became more inactive in the forty.
Researchers said: ‘Interesting is that the temporal accumulation of risky health behavior was particularly associated with depressive symptoms in the current study.
“These results suggest that the accumulation of risky health behavior over time can also be one of the important factors in preventing depressive symptoms and depression.”
The study, published in the magazine Annals of Medicine However, had several remarkable limitations. They could not conclude that risky behavior caused poor health just that they were linked.
Researchers also looked at a few risky behavior, while they do not consider different other other crossings, such as nutrition, sleep or drug use.
They also noted that the test subjects were born Finnish adults in 1959, a population that may not reflect the United States.
People may also have reported their health and habits by a rosere lens, hiding heavy drinking, remembering bad habits or not opening depressive symptoms, risking bias.
They concluded that people who currently have that risky behavior had more depressive symptoms based on a scored questionnaire with 16 items in the 40s to 60s
Nevertheless, the 30-year-old longitudinal design and the intake of various health results of the study, both physically and mentally, rare and valuable insights in the effects of lifelong habits and whether people can undo the damage.
Smoking is bound by a laundry list with health problems, ranging from countless cancers to chronic lung and breathing problems.
Excessive drinking is known that it causes serious liver damage that can prove life -threatening. And obesity is a leading risk factor for a series of chronic diseases.
Health habits do not change much during medium -sized adulthood, said researchers and became chronic concerns. Their findings emphasized the importance of ‘tackling risky health behavior as early as possible’ to prevent these risks from accumulating over the years, “which can lead to poor mental welfare and health later in life.”
The US is steeped in an epidemic of chronic diseases, such as cancers, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.
An estimated 133 million Americans – about 40 percent of the American population – have at least one chronic illness. Obesity is the most common among them. Forty -two percent of Americans have it.
Scientists have known for years that lifestyle choices and trauma in life, in particular childhood, significantly influence the health of life.
But the newest study breaks new terrain by revealing that it is not just what you do, it is when and how long you do it.
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