healthylifeIn a recently published study, providing advice over a 5-year period about leading a healthy lifestyle reduced the risk of heart-related deaths over the next 40 years.Those who received the advice showed a sustained 29% reduced risk of death at first heart attack compared with individuals who did not receive the advice, for up to 40 years. Death from any cause decreased in the period 8 to 20 years after randomization, but not thereafter.
For the study, all 25,915 men born in Oslo during the period 1923–1932 were invited in 1972/1973 to a cardiovascular disease screening examination; of these, 16,203 men participated in the screening. Overall, 1232 high-risk men with high cholesterol levels were included in the original intervention trial.
“Successful lifestyle intervention on diet and antismoking for 5 years in middle-aged men may give life-long benefits with regard to death from myocardial infarction,” said Dr. Ingar Holme, lead author of the Journal of Internal Medicine article.

Source: Wiley
Full bibliographic information:
Lifelong benefits on myocardial infarction mortality: 40-year follow-up of the randomized Oslo diet and antismoking study. J Intern Med 2016