{"id":14509,"date":"2019-11-12T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T21:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14509"},"modified":"2019-11-12T21:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T21:12:47","slug":"exercise-predicts-lifespan-more-than-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/fitness\/exercise-predicts-lifespan-more-than-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Predicts Lifespan More Than Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a surprising new study, researchers have found that exercise data is more accurate than smoking or medical history in predicting a person\u2019s short-term death risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Typically, physicians use lifestyle choices or your personal medical factors\u2014such as cancer or a history of strokes\u2014to estimate a person\u2019s mortality risk, which in term can help them extend their life. But new research indicates that wearing an activity tracker may provide a more reliable way of predicting death risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Using exercise as predictors<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A team of scientists at John Hopkins Medicine looked at data from two separate National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. The studies included nearly 3,000 men and women between the ages of 50 and 84. To gather more than 30 predictors (20 of which were related to physical activity) of 5-year all-cause mortality, the researchers used:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> medical records<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lab results<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> survey responses<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Volunteers wore an activity tracker on their hip for one week. The only times they remove the tracker were to shower, sleep or swim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been interested in studying physical activity and how accumulating it in spurts throughout the day could predict mortality,\u201d says professor Ciprian Crainiceanu, Ph.D., \u201cbecause activity is a factor that can be changed, unlike age or genetics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The results<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trackers were able to determine death risk 30% better than smoking-related information and 40% better than data involving cancer or stroke history.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of all the exercise-related predictors, total daily physical activity was the best predictor of mortality, followed by age and then time spent performing moderate to vigorous exercise. Perhaps most interesting, the amount of exercise someone did between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. was a better indicator than even diabetes or how much alcohol the person drinks.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, the results of this study don\u2019t mean that exercising more will guarantee your risk of mortality will be lower, but the point is, exercise is vital.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising new study, researchers have found that exercise data is more accurate than smoking or medical history in predicting a person\u2019s short-term death risk. Typically, physicians use lifestyle choices or your personal medical factors\u2014such as cancer or a history of strokes\u2014to estimate a person\u2019s mortality risk, which in term can help them extend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[770,870],"class_list":["post-14509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-exercise","tag-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}