MedPage Today (4/13, George) reports, “A healthy lifestyle was tied to a longer life but the extra years did not mean more time living with Alzheimer’s dementia,” investigators concluded after evaluating “data from 2,449 older adults with a mean age of 76 in the Chicago Health and Aging Project…who were recruited from 1993 to 2009.” The study revealed that “people who had four or five healthy lifestyle factors – spanning diet, cognitive activity, physical exercise, smoking, and alcohol patterns – at age 65 lived longer than their counterparts with zero or one healthy factors.” The findings were published online in the BMJ.
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