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Dietary quality, lifestyle factors and healthy ageing in Europe
— the SENECA study | | Author(s) | Annemien Haveman-Nies, Lisette C P G M de Groot, Wija A van Staveren |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 32, no 4, July 2003 |
| Pages | pp 427-434 |
| Keywords | Nutrition ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Tobacco smoking ; Death ; Longitudinal surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | The European multi-centre SENECA (Survey in Europe on Nutrition and the Elderly) study began in 1988-1989, with further measurements on diet, lifestyle and health being taken in 1993 and 1999. The study population comprised 1091 men and 1109 women aged 70-75 from Belgium, France, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Poland. The relationship of three lifestyle factors diet, physical activity and smoking habits to survival and maintenance of health in old age were investigated. The unhealthy lifestyle habits smoking, having a low-quality diet, and being physically inactive were singly related to an increased mortality risk. In addition, those who were inactive and smoked had an increased risk for a decline in health status, as compared with active and non-smoking people. The net effect of a healthy lifestyle on the process of healthy ageing is likely to go together with a compressed cumulative morbidity. Thus, a healthy lifestyle at older age is positively related to a reduced mortality risk and to a delay in the deterioration in health status. Health promotion at older ages can contribute to healthy ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030804212 A |
| Classmark | CF: CC: F: ETT: CW: 3J: 74 |
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