Smoking, blood pressure and cholesterol take away 10 years of life

Smokers middle-aged men with high blood pressure and high cholesterol content, live 10 years less healthy rovesnikov.K that revealed that employees of the University of Oxford (UK), studied the results of observations for 19 thousands of civil servants, reports the BBC. The experiment began in the years 1967-1970, when subjects were in 40-69 years, and ended after 38 let.V beginning of the study all participants were measured height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose and to test lung function . In addition, subjects filled out questionnaires, which reported their medical history, smoking habits, type of employment and marital status. Of all participants 42% were smokers, 39% had elevated blood pressure, while 51% revealed a high content of cholesterol in krovi.K in 2005, nearly 40 years, died on 13 501 tests. Men who at baseline smoked, suffered from hypertension and had high cholesterol, lived on average 74 years old, while the average life expectancy of healthy study participants was 83 goda.Po According to scientists, the period life expectancy for men has decreased due to the fact that these three risk factors contributed to the development of diseases of the cardiovascular system. Thus, if 50-year-old man refuses to cigarettes and take steps to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, he has every chance to live almost 10 years longer.