I better get busy on my bucket list!!!
Posted on 09/03/2020 4:59:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Scientists from the University of East Anglia have created the calculator which shows the effect medical and lifestyle factors can have on life expectancy
The idea of a calculator that can predict when you’re going to die does sound rather daunting and a little bit scary.
But scientists from the University of East Anglia have created this incredible innovation as part of a new study.
The calculator, named Mylongevity, shows the effect of various medical and lifestyle factors on people's life expectancy.
Professor Elena Kulinskaya, who led the development of the app, said: “People are interested in their life expectancy, but it is not just out of morbid curiosity.
“Life expectancy is a big consideration in any long-term planning and it is especially important to people planning their financial goals and retirement strategies.
“It can also help people improve their life expectancy by making healthy lifestyle changes.”
To use the calculator, simply input your data, including your name, age, gender, any underlying health conditions, and whether or not you smoke.
The calculator will then reveal how much longer you’ll likely to live, based on data from the Office for National Statistics.
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For example, I inputted my data, and the calculator predicted that my life expectancy is around 89.7 years.
Professor Kulinskaya said: “The software we have developed is based on our research using electronic health records. In our recent analysis of life expectancy, we followed a cohort of 110,000 healthy people who hit 60 between 1990 and 2000 for the next 25 years, updating their health status every six months.
“The results of our analysis are translated into life expectancies for 648 different risk profiles based on age, sex and postcode. The list of risk factors we used include hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, BMI, the risk of a cardiac event within 10 years, smoking status and statin use.”
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Worryingly, the calculator was developed before the COVID-19 pandemic, which may result in a decreased life expectancy for some.
138290666475 Professor Kulinskaya added: “We are confident that the key application of our tool - helping to show the relative effects of such things as smoking - is largely unaffected, but we plan to fine tune it to explore life expectancy changes caused by the pandemic.”
Overall, the researchers hope the calculator could prove useful for GPs to help people make lifestyle changes to improve their life expectancy.
You can test it yourself here.
Because our death date will be a *range* of dates extending over time, as we slowly die "by 1000 cuts".
If they can predict WHERE you will die, would you ever go there?
Heres the link https://mylongevity.org/calculator
Take care.
I’m going to die when The Lord calls me home. Not interested in modern Tarot readings.
Keith Richard's will still out-live her!
It uses BMI which is worthless for athletic people.
I’m not as concerned about my life expectancy as I am about my ETERNAL life expectancy.
He obviously has better drugs.
Re: “My life expectancy is rounded to 88 years.”
Mine rounds to 89.
If you live to age 70 in good health, your average age of death is usually at least 85.
I am a life long runner, and I have long lived family members, so 89 is plausible.
Unfortunately, every family member I have (had) who lived past 90 had clear symptoms of dementia.
That definitely worries me.
What good is a long life if you cannot manage your own affairs and cannot recognize the people who love you?
Awesome! What worked for you to get the tumor reduced?
It claims that I died nine years ago. Good genes, I guess.
According to the calculator, I died 20 years ago. 8>)
My FIL was morbidly overweight for 75 years, smoked 3-4 packs a day from high school to 50, ate wrong, terrible junk food after his wife died for 20 years and then died with liver cancer and probably 95% of his marbles at 89. He was was self-sufficient, driving and using a computer until two months before he died. It’s the genes.
“Unfortunately, every family member I have (had) who lived past 90 had clear symptoms of dementia.”
There has GOT to be a treatment/preventative for this soon. Fortunately, this does not run in my family. We just get meaner and nastier with age.
One and the same
And spoil the suprise?
CC
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