{"id":137606,"date":"2025-02-19T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/why-european-life-expectancy-gains-have-slowed-and-how-to-boost-longevity-again\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:10:22","slug":"why-european-life-expectancy-gains-have-slowed-and-how-to-boost-longevity-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/why-european-life-expectancy-gains-have-slowed-and-how-to-boost-longevity-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Why European life expectancy gains have slowed and how to boost longevity again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137606\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Countries with healthier populations in the 2010s were less likely to be affected by the pandemic\u2019s hit to life expectancy. Life expectancy may have fallen across Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic, but longevity gains were tapering off for nearly a decade beforehand \u2013 and a new study sheds light on why. Europeans born today can expect to live into their 80s, far outpacing most of the world, but that may not always be the case.<\/p>\n<p>While life expectancy surged in the 1990s and early 2000s, it slowed in the 2010s before plummeting during the pandemic and rebounding in its aftermath, offering clues about how government policies shape health outcomes. The new study on these changes, which was published in\u202fThe Lancet Public Health journal, included Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden, as well as the United Kingdom nations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Across these 20 countries, Europeans gained an average of 0.23 years of life expectancy per year between 1990 and 2011, as deaths from heart disease and cancer fell. That means every year for two decades, people could expect to live nearly three months longer than those born just one year earlier. \u201cAdvances in public health and medicine in the 20th century meant that life expectancy in Europe improved year after year,\u201d Nick Steel, a professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK and the study\u2019s lead researcher, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Longevity gains slowed to 0.15 years (1.8 months) of annual added life expectancy from 2011 to 2019, according to the analysis. UK countries, led by England, saw the most stagnation in the 2010s, followed by Germany and Spain. Meanwhile, life expectancy barely budged in Iceland and the deceleration was minimal in other Nordic countries. The study authors said the overall slowdown was due to an increase in deaths from heart disease tied to obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, poor diets, and a lack of exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Independent researchers said that some of the shift could also be due to population-level changes over time. \u201cThe demographics of the European population have changed markedly in some countries such as the UK, France, and Germany because of increased migration compared to Nordic countries,\u201d Tom Sanders, professor emeritus of nutrition and dietetics at King&#8217;s College London, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2025\/02\/19\/why-european-life-expectancy-gains-have-slowed-and-how-to-boost-longevity-again\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2025\/02\/19\/why-european-life-expectancy-gains-have-slowed-and-how-to-boost-longevity-again\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/152233\/\">Why European life expectancy gains have slowed and how to boost longevity again<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}