Effect of major lifestyle risk factors, independent and jointly, on life expectancy with and without cardiovascular disease: results from the Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES)

• Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology
• Main Authors: O’Doherty, Mark G., Cairns, Karen, O’Neill, Vikki, Lamrock, Felicity, Jørgensen, Torben, Brenner, Hermann, Schöttker, Ben, Wilsgaard, Tom, Siganos, Galatios, Kuulasmaa, Kari, Boffetta, Paolo, Trichopoulou, Antonia, Kee, Frank
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
• Subjects: Mortality; Esther; Tromsø
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4901087/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26781655; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0112-8

Seldom have studies taken account of changes in lifestyle habits in the elderly, or investigated their impact on disease-free life expectancy (LE) and LE with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Using data on subjects aged 50+ years from three European cohorts (RCPH, ESTHER and Tromsø), we used multi-stat...