Lower Life Expectancy Likely Caused by Lifestyle Choices

  • By Mladenoff Clinic of AZ
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  • 27 Apr, 2018

For the first time in two decades, the life expectancy of Americans declined slightly, and the overall death rate rose, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics.

While that information shouldn’t alarm many, it does point to challenges in keepingAmerica healthy.

“A lot of people are still trying to understand the data and speculate on what thereport means based on the information we have,” said Dr. Nicole Osevala, an internist and geriatrician at HPenn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Osevala said the life expectancy report was broken down into age ranges, and adults age 65 and older saw no decrease in how long they are expected to live.

The decrease in life expectancy comes into play for the younger and middle-aged population. For those under the age of 65, accidental deaths and complications from chronic diseases such as heart disease, renal disease, stroke and diabetes were the causes of death that saw increases in 2015.

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“It’s concerning because in many ways, these are linked to lifestyle choices and obesity,” Osevala said. “And those are problems we don’t necessarily have medications for.”

Whether it’s young people abusing opiates or texting while driving, or middle-agedfolks failing to get exercise and maintaining poor diets, such lifestyle choices aren’tentirely within the control of the medical community.

“All of our medical knowledge, interventions and medications don’t seem to be making an impact on preventing these diseases from killing people,” Osevala said. “We cancounsel and educate patients, but we are not in their homes 24 hours a day, sevendays a week. It’s the day-to-day choices we are making that have the biggest impact.”

Link to full article: http://news.psu.edu/story/442469/2016/12/15/medical-minute- lower-life-expectancy-likely-caused-lifestyle-choices

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