Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and aging
Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and aging more than our genes
A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity), and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes.
Lifestyle beats genetics on path to premature death, study finds
A range of external factors, including exercise and smoking, was almost 10 times more likely than genetic risk factors to explain premature mortality, scientists from the University of Oxford and Massachusetts General Hospital said in the Nature Medicine journal.
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