Dr. Stephanie Studenski and her research associates at the University of Pittsburgh MC have just done us all a huge favor;
-No wait; -whatever the opposite of “favor” is.
-If you set that concept on fire,
And then shoot it in the completely opposite direction at a speed of Mach 48.
You see, Stephanie and her team used some fiendishly-clever chessmaster/cryptonomicon insight and discovered what they believe for the time being is a helpful COMPLETELY UNHELPFUL shortcut in longevity determination.
-Which none of us are going to like.
Here it is: Stephanie and the team at UPMC have found an indicator, …
-which you can find down there at the links.
And what makes it even worse, is that her metric,
proved in what is essentially a meta-study,
across about, oh, … ~34,500 people,
and followed up between 6,
and TWENTY-ONE years,
and I quote:
“was as accurate as predicted based on age, sex, use of mobility aids, and self-reported function or as age, sex, chronic conditions, smoking history, blood pressure, body mass index, and hospitalization.”
++Oh, and you can’t really change it or do anything about it. It’s something you do naturally.
-BOOM.
Let’s hope she’s at least partially wrong, and, like everything else posted on this blog,
there is something you can actually DO about it; Links below–
Photo Credits: “the chase”, by Yarik Mishin
Links:
• via: MSNBC
• More Coverage: ScientificAmerican
• Source Study: JAMA-Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults
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