Avoid these mid-life risk factors, guys

Get married, stop smoking and lose weight.

Certain risk factors affect survival rate in men: overweight, hyperglycemia and hypertension, smoking and excessive drinking, hypertriglyceridemia, lack of higher education, and not being married. Risk factor models based on cumulative risk factors (survival risk score) suggest that the probability of survival to oldest age is as high as 69% with no risk factors and as low as 22% with 6 or more risk factors. The probability of exceptional survival to age 85 years was 55% with no risk factors but decreased to 9% with 6 or more risk factors. JAMA. 2006;296:2343-2350.