New study shows healthspan, the number of healthy years a person lives is, on average, increasing – even for people with common chronic conditions.

TENAFLY, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES, March 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- There have been advances in healthcare over recent decades that mean many people with chronic health conditions are living longer with increasing healthspan, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine by Holly Bennett of Newcastle University, and others.

Longevity.Technology: Lifespan is often associated with longevity research but healthspan less so; perhaps that’s because it’s more nebulous – after all, alive or dead is a pretty binary decision (The Walking Dead, notwithstanding), but one person’s healthy is another person’s sub-par. There isn’t much point focusing on extending life unless we are also improving the quality of that life – more years in good health, free from serious disease. The frontline approaches – diet, exercise, more sleep, less stress – should be backed up with personalised, preventative strategies that prevent, slow or even halt age-related diseases. This will not only give us more happy, healthy years, but have enormous economic and social consequences for us all.

The researchers started from the point that previous research has examined the improvements in healthy years if different health conditions are eliminated, but often with cross-sectional data, or for a limited number of conditions. In the new study, researchers wanted to determine whether this extension to life involves an increase in years with or without disability. The team analysed data from two large population-based studies of people aged 65 or over in England. The studies, the Cognitive Function and Agding Studies (CFAS I and II) involved baseline interviews with 7,635 people in 1991-1993 and with 7,762 people in 2008-2011, with two years of follow-up in each case.

For both healthy people and those with health conditions, the average years of disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) increased from 1991 to 2011. Overall, men gained 4.6 years in life expectancy (95% CI: 3.7 – 5.5 years, p<0.001)) and 3.7 years in DFLE (95% CI: 2.7 – 4.8, p<0.001)). Men with conditions including arthritis, coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes gained more years in DFLE than years with disability. The greatest improvements in DFLE in men were seen for those with respiratory difficulties and those living post-stroke [1].

There have been advances in healthcare over recent decades that mean many people with chronic health conditions are living longer with increasing healthspan, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine by Holly Bennett of Newcastle University, and others.

Longevity.Technology: Lifespan is often associated with longevity research but healthspan less so; perhaps that’s because it’s more nebulous – after all, alive or dead is a pretty binary decision (The Walking Dead, notwithstanding), but one person’s healthy is another person’s sub-par. There isn’t much point focusing on extending life unless we are also improving the quality of that life – more years in good health, free from serious disease. The frontline approaches – diet, exercise, more sleep, less stress – should be backed up with personalised, preventative strategies that prevent, slow or even halt age-related diseases. This will not only give us more happy, healthy years, but have enormous economic and social consequences for us all.

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