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.
Dr. Hugo Pinero did this a long time ago.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to live for another 75 years.
Univeristy of East Anglia. Hmmm. Aren’t they the ones who had the prof that came up with the whole tree ring global warming mess?
No credibility for me. Not interested.
Brought to you by the same clowns that fabricated “global warming” statistics. Your life is in God’s hands, why suffer “learned” fools?
Josef Stalin: “Hold vodka. Create calculator that predict exact date.”
I think I’ll hack my copy of that calculator and change the plus (+) function to a multiplication (x) function.
I wasn’t supposed to be alive today because of my liver cancer. But my MRI results have shown that the tumor has shrunk by half on it’s own. I’m still not out of the woods but I believe only God knows when your ticket is punched.
I doubt very much that climate scientists built this calculator.
Congrats. Keep fighting.
I did such a calculator online and it said I died nine years ago.
My life expectancy is rounded to 88 years. Will check in in another 50 and we’ll see. Late 80s is way beyond the average for my predecessors.
Shouldn’t they ask whether you plan to wear a MAGA hat in downtown Portland in the next few months?
So now you’re a Chicago Democrat voter!
LOL!
It's called Actuarial Science, and insurance companies have been doing it for over a century.
Don’t say that. Not even jokingly.
something from years ago...
https://www.death-clock.org/
I am a dead person—and I vote!
Do I get an “I voted” sticker on election day?
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