The adult generations of today are less healthy than their counterparts of previous generations [View all]

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[font face=Serif][font size=5]The adult generations of today are less healthy than their counterparts of previous generations[/font]
[font size=4]Results from a large cohort study suggest that exposure to metabolic risks of cardiovascular disease is increasing[/font]

Topics: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management
Date: 10 Apr 2013

[font size=3]Sophia Antipolis, 10 April 2013. Despite their greater life expectancy, the adults of today are less "metabolically" healthy than their counterparts of previous generations. That's the conclusion of a large cohort study from the Netherlands which compared generational shifts in a range of well established metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Assessing the trends, the investigators concluded that "the more recently born generations are doing worse", and warn "that the prevalence of metabolic risk factors and the lifelong exposure to them have increased and probably will continue to increase".

The study, reported today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, analysed data on more than 6,000 individuals in the Doetinchem Cohort Study, which began in 1987–1991 with follow-up examinations after six, 11, and 16 years.(1,2) The principal risk factors measured were body weight, blood pressure, total cholesterol levels (for hypercholesterolaemia) and levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, which is considered "protective".

The subjects were stratified by sex and generation at baseline into ten-year age groups (20–29, 30–39, 40–49, and 50–59 years); the follow-up analyses aimed to determine whether one generation had a different risk profile from a generation born ten years earlier - what the investigators called a "generation shift".

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