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" Older people who lead an active lifestyle can add up to six years on to their life expectancy, a study has found. Researchers at Sweden&amp;#039;s Karolinska Institute studied data on more than 1,800 people, aged 75 and older, who were followed for 18 years. During the follow-up period, 92 per cent of the participants died, although half lived past their 90th birthday. The researchers found that survivors tended to be female and highly educated, with a healthy lifestyle, good social network and high uptake of leisure-time activities than non-survivors. Analysis revealed that maintaining a physically active lifestyle had the strongest effect on survival. On average, a healthy lifestyle added five years to women&amp;#039;s lives and six years to those of men. Publishing their findings in the British Medical Journal, the study authors concluded: &amp;#039;Our results suggest that encouraging favourable lifestyle behaviours even at advanced ages may enhance life expectancy, probably by reducing morbidity.&amp;#039; The study follows new figures from the Office for National Statistics, which show that Britons are enjoying good health for longer. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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