{"id":122437,"date":"2013-06-24T18:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=122437"},"modified":"2013-09-09T16:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:17:43","slug":"how-to-live-four-years-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/how-to-live-four-years-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to live four years longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-122438\" alt=\"014-017_Tecnociencia_207-6\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/014-017_Tecnociencia_207-6.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"171\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">DANIEL BUENO<\/span>By paying better attention to their health and actually avoiding preventable diseases, the elderly could live four years longer. This was the conclusion reached by researchers from the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz; Cadernos de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica, April). Working with her colleagues, Solange Kanso, of Ipea, found that chronic diseases \u2013 especially heart disease (56.6%), flu and pneumonia (9.3%), and tobacco-related tumors (7.8%) \u2013 are responsible for the majority (82%) of avoidable causes of death for seniors up to the age of 74 in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo. Brazil has policies aimed at the prevention of these diseases, such as the National Re-organization Plan for the Care of Hypertension and Diabetes, which targets those age 40 and above. One of the goals of the S\u00e3o Paulo State Department of Health is to reduce hospitalization and death rates related to disorders of the circulatory system. The problem, however, is that \u201cthese programs only cover the population from 30 to 59 years of age, which excludes the elderly,\u201d the authors point out. Taking special care of one\u2019s health would extend life expectancy by eliminating what are considered the main avoidable causes of death, especially among the male population, which may be exposed to more risk factors and may rely less on healthcare services. \u201cHad these deaths not occurred,\u201d the researchers report, \u201cthe life expectancy in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo at the age of 60 would be 20.5% higher, climbing from 22.2 more years to 26.8 \u2013 almost the same as in Japan.\u201d In 2007, 66,190 seniors up to the age of 74 died in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to live four years longer ","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247],"coauthors":[437],"class_list":["post-122437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122437"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=122437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}