Branch L G, Jette A M
Am J Public Health. 1984 Oct;74(10):1126-9. doi: 10.2105/ajph.74.10.1126.
Research on young and middle-aged adults has demonstrated a correlation between certain personal health practices and reduced mortality. This investigation examines the generalizability of these findings to elders who have survived into their seventh and eighth decades. Using data from the Massachusetts Health Care Panel Study, we examined the association of physical activity, cigarette smoking, hours of sleep, alcohol consumption, and number of meals with five-year mortality rates. For elderly women, never having smoked cigarettes is the only personal health practice that achieves a statistically significant multivariate relationship with lower mortality. None of the personal health practices are related significantly to mortality among elderly men.
针对中青年人群的研究表明,某些个人健康行为与死亡率降低之间存在关联。本调查旨在检验这些研究结果对活到七、八十岁老年人的普遍适用性。利用马萨诸塞州医疗保健小组研究的数据,我们研究了身体活动、吸烟、睡眠时间、饮酒量和用餐次数与五年死亡率之间的关联。对于老年女性而言,从不吸烟是唯一与较低死亡率呈现出具有统计学意义的多元关系的个人健康行为。在老年男性中,没有任何一种个人健康行为与死亡率有显著关联。