Adherence
Adopting an extended unhealthy lifestyle profile (including smoking, alcohol, poor diet, low physical activity, high TV viewing, and sleep duration) significantly increases all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality risk, with the magnitude of this risk disproportionately higher in socioeconomically deprived populations.
Your lifestyle choices (diet, activity, sleep, substance use) have a massive impact on your longevity, and this impact is even more severe if you live in a deprived area. To maximize your health, you must address all these factors, not just one. However, recognizing that systemic factors play a role, seeking support and focusing on what you can control within your environment is critical.
Wide combinations of lifestyle factors are associated with disproportionate harm in deprived populations.
Why this rating
Large prospective cohort (UK Biobank, n=328,594) with landmark analysis and adjustment for confounders, though observational.
Source
The effect of socioeconomic deprivation on the association between an extended measurement of unhealthy lifestyle factors and health outcomes: a prospective analysis of the UK Biobank cohort
Hamish Foster et al. · The Lancet Public Health · 2018
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