Healthy Lifestyle Can Offset Effects Of Life-Shortening Genes By More Than 60%, Results Show

HealthDay (4/30, Thompson) reports, “A healthy lifestyle can offset the effects of life-shortening genes by more than 60%,” according to researchers who “analyzed data drawn from nearly 354,000 people participating in the UK Biobank genetics and health study” and found that “people at high genetic risk of a curtailed lifespan could extend their life expectancy by nearly 5.5 years if they’ve adopted a healthy lifestyle by age 40.” The findings were published in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.