Lifestyle Underwriting – Update 4/27/10

Arch Intern Med — Abstract: Influence of Individual and Combined Health Behaviors on Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Men and Women: The United Kingdom Health and Lifestyle Survey, April 26, 2010, Kvaavik et al. 170 (8): 711

The effect of combined health behaviors was strongest for other deaths and weakest for cancer mortality. Those with 4 compared with those with no poor health behaviors had an all-cause mortality risk equivalent to being 12 years older.

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