Will you die in next 5 years?
Posted on: 05/Jun/2015 9:37:44 AM
You will now be able to know whether your life will last for more than 5 years down the line or not. If this interests you, check out the website called Ubble. Comparison of predictors of mortality between people of middle to elderly age has not done yet. This is now handled by the researchers and the mortality of UK Biobank participants were studied.
In this site, you will be asked several questions such as your health condition, blood pressure, pulse rate, briskness level while you walk, number of cars you own, to name a few. Men will be asked about 13 questions while women 11. This will at the end produce the result with risk factor of death in the following 5 years.
One of the sturdy risk factors in men was self-assessed health and in women, it was the cancer diagnosis. In those who belonged to both sexes, smoking stood as the prominent risk factor.
In the age group between 40 and 70, death rate was found low. In about 500,000 biobank participants, lesser than 2% of them which was 8352 died in a period of 5 years. Importantly, one of the factors that proved better health was the individual’s ability to walk briskly.
