WASHINGTON, June 11 – Reckon yourself a decade older than your real age if you smoke. The chances of death of a 55-year-old smoker are almost same to 65-year-old person who doesn’t smoke. These are the suggestions of newly published charts that were aimed to present some of American people’s biggest health risks.
The concept of risk is difficult to understand as it assimilates math and emotion. People are often flooded with challenging warnings of health risks.
“How big the risk is and how does it compare with other risks, these are the questions that must be addressed in useful messages about health risks.” Dr. Lisa Schwartz of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt. stated.
Schwartz and team searched government death data to develop easy to understand charts that compare the possibilities of death in the next 10 years for diseases and different ages.
The charts have been intended to post in doctor’s offices and instead of personal risk factors like history of cancer in the family the charts stress on age, gender and smoking status. The bottom-line messages from the charts are as follow.
- Risks increase and decrease with age, for example in men who don’t smoke till the age of 45, accidents are the single largest cause of death among them. But until age of 50 disease accidents are tied with heart disease and heart risks take over.
- Smoking devastatingly exacerbates odds of existence. For instance, between ages 60 and 70 almost 7 out of every 1000 women may die of breast cancer but in the similar period 14 out 1000 may die of heart problems, the charts identify. However, among smokers, as the charts notify, 31 out of 1000 women may die of heart disease in ages 60 and 70 and similarly 41 out of 1000 may die of lung cancer.
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