Behavioural risk factors and healthy life expectancy: evidence from two longitudinal studies of ageing in England and the US.

ABSTRACT: We examined whether the co-occurrence of four behavioural risk factors (alcohol consumption, smoking, physical inactivity and obesity) is associated with disability-free and chronic disease-free life expectancy similarly in two longitudinal studies of ageing in England and the United States. Data were from 17,351 individuals aged 50+ from the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and, 10,388 from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), from 2002 to 2013. Disability-free life expectancy was estimated using repeat measures of limitations with instrumental activities and activities of daily living and, chronic disease-free life expectancy was based on chronic health conditions. Multistate life table models were used to estimate sex-specific health expectancy at the ages of 50, 60 and

SUBMITTER: Zaninotto P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181761 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature