Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is well established that selected lifestyle factors are individually associated with lower risk of chronic diseases, but how combinations of these factors are associated with disease-free life-years is unknown.

Objective

To estimate the association between healthy lifestyle and the number of disease-free life-years.

Design, setting, and participants

A prospective multicohort study, including 12 European studies as part of the Individual-Participant-Data Meta-analysis in Working Populations Consortium, was performed. Participants included 116 043 people free of major noncommunicable disease at baseline from August 7, 1991, to May 31, 2006. Data analysis was conducted from May 22, 2018, to January 21, 2020.

Exposures

Four baseline lifestyle factors

SUBMITTER: Nyberg ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136858 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature