Long lived parents will help to live a long life read more at here http://spinonews.com/index.php/component/k2/item/607

The longer our parents lived, the longer we are likely to live ourselves, and the more likely we are to stay healthy in our sixties and seventies.

Longer lived parents have much lower rates of a range of heart conditions and some cancers.

The study was led by the University of Exeter and involved an international team of academics from UK, USA, India, and France, found an evidence showing that the age at which your parents died could help predict your risk not only of heart disease, but many aspects of heart and circulatory health. 17 per cent for each decade that at least one parent lives beyond the age of 70.

On the health of 1,86,000 middle-aged offspring, aged 55 to 73 years. The team find an evidence that, those with longer lived parents had lower incidence of multiple circulatory conditions including heart disease, heart failure, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and atrial fibrillation.

Even though factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, low physical activity and obesity were important for the lifespan of our parents was still prophetic of disease onset after accounting for these risks.

In earlier times, researchers from University of Exeter found, offspring of longer-lived parents was more likely to have protective variants of genes liked to coronary artery disease, systolic blood pressure, body mass index, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Luke Pilling, lead author of the study, said, this work helps to identify the genetic variations explaining the better health of people with longer-lived parents.

 

Research tells us that, while avoiding the well-known risk factors such as smoking is very important, also other factors inherited from parents. These parental factors better, we should be able to help more people to age well.