即使你有慢性疾病，健康的生活方式可以帮助你活得更久

即使你有慢性疾病，健康的生活方式可以帮助你活得更久

Even if you have multiple chronic conditions, a very healthy lifestyle is associated with up to 6.3 years longer life for men and 7.6 years for women, according to a new study.

一项新的研究表明，即使你患有多种慢性疾病，健康的生活方式也能延长男性6.3年的寿命，女性7.6年的寿命。

Exercise, a healthy diet and not smoking or drinking can help you live years longer even if you're struggling with other chronic medical conditions, according to a new study.

一项最新研究表明，即使你正与其它慢性病作斗争，锻炼、健康饮食、不抽烟不喝酒也能帮助你延年益寿。

While a healthy lifestyle has long been linked to a longer life span, there's been very little research to date on how lifestyle factors affect people with "multimorbidity" -- living with two or more long-term mental or physical health conditions such as hypertension, asthma, cancer, depression, migraine, diabetes and angina.

虽然健康的生活方式长期以来与长寿有关，但迄今为止很少有研究表明生活方式因素如何影响患有“多发病”的人，即生活在两种或两种以上长期精神或生理健康状况下的人，如高血压、哮喘、癌症、抑郁症、偏头痛、糖尿病和心绞痛。

To find out, a team of UK researchers tracked 93,736 middle-aged adults who had two or more of 36 chronic conditions, for up to nine years. The team assessed four lifestyle factors: leisure-time physical activity, smoking, diet and alcohol consumption.

为了找到答案，一组英国研究人员对93736名中年人进行了长达9年的跟踪调查，这些人患有36种慢性疾病中的两种或两种以上。研究小组评估了四个生活方式因素:闲暇时间体育活动、吸烟、饮食和饮酒。

A very healthy lifestyle, the researchers found, is associated with up to 6.3 years longer life for men and 7.6 years for women, regardless of the presence of multiple chronic conditions, compared with those given the lowest lifestyle score.

研究人员发现，无论是否存在多种慢性疾病，有健康的生活方式(的人)与生活方式得分最低的人相比，男性可延长6.3年的寿命，女性可延长7.6年的寿命。

Not smoking conferred the biggest benefit, with smokers at age 45 living five to six years less than non-smokers. Regular physical exercise was associated with living one to 2.5 years longer. The benefits of a healthy diet and lower alcohol intake were smaller and less certain.

不吸烟的好处最大，45岁的吸烟者比不吸烟者少活5到6年。有规律的体育锻炼可以多活一年到两年半。健康饮食和低酒精摄入量的好处是小而不确定的。

"More individuals are living with multiple chronic conditions, impacting their health and daily lives," said Yogini Chudasama, an epidemiologist and statistician at the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit at the University of Leicester's Diabetes Research Centre.

莱斯特大学糖尿病研究中心莱斯特真实世界证据组的流行病学家和统计学家优吉尼·楚达撒玛说：“越来越多的人患有多种慢性病，影响了他们的健康和日常生活。”

"We found a healthy lifestyle, in particular abstinence from smoking, increased life expectancy by as much as 7 years. Our study has important implications for the public's health, as we hope our findings have shown that it's never too late to make vital lifestyle changes," she said in a press statement.

“我们发现，健康的生活方式，尤其是不吸烟的生活方式，可以使人的预期寿命延长7年。我们的研究对公众的健康有着重要的影响，我们希望我们的研究结果表明，改变重要的生活方式永远都不晚。” 她在一份新闻声明中说。

For women with at least two chronic conditions, even an "unhealthy" score on the four lifestyle factors was associated with living 3.5 years longer when compared to people who were given a "very unhealthy" score. A "healthy" score was linked to a gain of 6.4 years and "very healthy" score was linked to a gain of 7.6 years.

对于至少患有两种慢性疾病的女性来说，即使在四种生活方式因素上得分为“不健康”，与得分为“非常不健康”的人相比，她们也能多活3.5年。得分为“健康”的人的寿命可延长6.4年，得分为“非常健康”的人的寿命可延长7.6年。

For men, the corresponding estimates were 1.5 years, 4.5 years and 6.3 years.

对男性而言，相应的估计为1.5年、4.5年和6.3年。

In their analysis, the researchers said they accounted for individual factors like socioeconomic status, ethnicity and employment status.

在他们的分析中，研究人员说，他们考虑了个人因素，如社会经济地位，种族和就业状况。

The study had some limitations, It was an observational study and, as such, can only establish a link rather than cause.

这项研究有一些局限性，它是一项观察性研究，因此只能确定两者之间的联系，而不能确定原因。

The most common conditions for men were hypertension, asthma, cancer, diabetes and angina, while for women they were hypertension, asthma, cancer, depression and migraine.

男性最常见的疾病是高血压、哮喘、癌症、糖尿病和心绞痛，而女性则是高血压、哮喘、癌症、抑郁症和偏头痛。