(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 16 – Already at the age of 45 it is an ‘epidemic’ of chronic ailments, from back pain to mental health problems and high blood pressure, in fact, during middle age one in three people are confronted with one or more chronic health problems.
This was revealed by an epidemiological study still in progress – the British Cohort Study -, involving a total of 17,000 individuals, and which was published in the journal BMC Public Health.
The sample is periodically examined to gather information on its state of health. Well it emerged that already among the 40-year-olds ailments and health problems are not an exception, on the contrary they are quite widespread.
Among the most common problems are a risky consumption of alcohol which affects 26% of middle-aged adults, recurrent back pain (which afflicts 21% of people in this age group), mental health problems – which concern another 19%, high blood pressure (for 16% of middle-aged adults) and then again arthritis, type 2 diabetes, asthma and bronchitis.
It is surprising and at the same time troubling to see how many still relatively young individuals already have health problems, said lead author Dawid Gondek.
It is not a good prospect that a large group of forty-year-olds are already suffering from poor health, continues Gondek, especially when you think that people’s life expectancy has increased and that therefore the elderly of tomorrow will have more and more ailments and physical ailments with which to live longer and longer. (HANDLE).
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