A healthy lifestyle increases the life expectancy of people with Alzheimer's and delays the onset of dementia

A new study has highlighted how lifestyle can affect longevity. The data revealed that people with healthy, active lifestyles live longer and fewer years with Alzheimer's disease.

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The results of a new one search suggest that a healthy lifestyle increases life expectancy, and is also linked to a reduction in the number of years with the disease Alzheimer.

The scientists used information from 2.449 US volunteers, aged 65 and over.

The study volunteers reported what they ate, how often they did activities such as reading or doing a crossword puzzle, and how much physical activity they engaged in. They also told the researchers if they smoked and how much they drank.

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From the data it was found that people with a healthy lifestyle were more likely to live longer than people with an unhealthy lifestyle.

Also, on average, the number of years lived with Alzheimer's was lower for those with healthy, active lifestyles.

In fact, 65-year-old women who lived healthily had a life expectancy of 24,2 years, and lived 3 years longer than 65-year-old women with an unhealthy lifestyle.

Of the total life expectancy at age 65, women with a good lifestyle had spent 10,8% of the remaining years (approximately 2 years) with Alzheimer's, while women with a roughly 19,3% (4 years) had lived with the disease.

As for men, however, those 65 years of age with a healthy lifestyle had a chance to live about 5,7 years longer than men of the same age, but with a different lifestyle.

Furthermore, the former spent only 6,1% (about 1 and a half years) of the remaining years with the Alzheimer's dementia, compared to 12% of men with an unhealthy lifestyle.

Consequently, the research was able to point out with certainty that a healthy lifestyle is associated with a longer life expectancy between men and women and, in addition, the possibility of living fewer years with the symptoms and problems related to the disease. Alzheimer's.

The reason? This is because people with an active lifestyle are less likely to get sick, or develop the disease later in life.

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