Health behaviors

1. Health behaviors improve social health in humans.

   “In addition, health behaviors are found to affect mental health and social health, while self-rated health can influence life satisfaction.”

   Humans

   Enhancing understanding of healthy aging based on time-varying dependencies among multidimensional health, life satisfaction, and health behaviors of older adults aged 60 years and over

   BMC public health·16 Jan 2024

1. Health behaviors improve mental health in humans.

   “In addition, health behaviors are found to affect mental health and social health, while self-rated health can influence life satisfaction.”

   Humans

   Enhancing understanding of healthy aging based on time-varying dependencies among multidimensional health, life satisfaction, and health behaviors of older adults aged 60 years and over

   BMC public health·16 Jan 2024

1. Health behaviors lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in humans (HR = 0.59, 95 % CI = 0.41-0.86).

   “Among those without metabolic risk factors, improvement in health behavior score was linked to reduced CVD risk and an 8.1-year longer median survival (HR = 0.59, 95 % CI = 0.41-0.86).”

   Humanswithout metabolic risk factorsaverage of 11 yearsn = 4,470

   Changes in health behaviors and risk of cardiovascular disease among midlife and aging municipal employees with and without metabolic risk factors: A register-linkage cohort study in Finland

   Preventive medicine·4 Aug 2025

More on Cardiovascular disease

1. Health behaviors are associated with longevity in humans.

   “regression analyses suggested that cognition, activity of daily living functioning, health behaviors, diabetes, and father's age at death were significantly associated with longevity”

   Humansmalesn = 3,734

   From 70 to 100: The Kuakini Hawaii Centenarian Study

   The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences·7 May 2025