Wolfgang Miesbach: Adding Years of Life – and Life to Years
Wolfgang Miesbach, Professor of Medicine at Frankfurt University Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article by Nicholas A․ Koemel et al, published in The Lancet:
“Sleep plus Movement plus Diet equals Extra Years of Life.
This new UK Biobank analysis (with 59,078 participants) was published yesterday in The Lancet Group by Nick Koemel, et al. and shows how sleep, physical activity, and diet work together to shape both
- life expectancy and
- disability‑/disease‑free life expectancy (DFLE).
Each point compares a lifestyle combination with the ‘worst‘ pattern (short sleep, very low activity, poor diet):
Moving from low to moderate MVPA (moderate‑to‑vigorous physical activity: 23–42 min/day of brisk walking, cycling, or sports) already adds several years of life and DFLE.
Adding 7–8 h of sleep on top of that further increases both total and healthy years.
The biggest gains (up to almost a decade of extra life and DFLE) are seen with high MVPA (>42 min/day) + 7–8 h sleep + higher‑quality diet. Diet was assessed using a 10-item diet quality score (DQS), including intake of vegetables, fruits, grains, meats, fish, dairy, oils.
Even small concurrent changes (a few extra minutes of activity, slightly longer sleep, modest diet improvement) shift the dots upward – meaning more years gained, not just fewer events.”
Title: Minimum combined sleep, physical activity, and nutrition variations associated with lifeSPAN and healthSPAN improvements: a population cohort study
Authors: Nicholas A․ Koemel, Raaj K․ Biswas, Matthew N․ Ahmadi, Armando Teixeira Pinto, Mark Hamer, Leandro F․M․ Rezende, John Mitchell, Rebecca M․ Leech, Mouna Sawan, Margaret Allman Farinelli, Dorothea Dumuid, Adrian Bauman, Carol Maher, Stephen Barrett, Clara Chow, Alice A․ Gibson, David Raubenheimer, Samantha L․ Hocking, Kathryn Williams, Peter A․ Cistulli, Stephen J․ Simpson, Emmanuel Stamatakis
Read the Full Article on The Lancet.
Find more posts featuring Wolfgang Miesbac on Hemostasis Today.
-
Oct 4, 2026, 06:12David McIntosh: 900 Plasma Donations One Patient One Lifeline
-
Oct 4, 2026, 06:00Aadil Sheikh: Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Thrombosis Rethinking Route Dose and Risk
-
Oct 4, 2026, 05:39Alicja Urbaniak: Targeting CD148 for Novel Antithrombotic Therapy
-
Oct 4, 2026, 05:27Nirali Thakkar: Influenza and Myocardial Infarction An Unexpected Cardiovascular Connection
-
Oct 4, 2026, 05:03Hisham Fahmi: Thromboprophylaxis in Children With ALL A Risk Adapted Approach
-
Oct 4, 2026, 05:00Mary Cushman: Erin Michos Highlights Rising Heart Disease Mortality Among Younger Women in the US
-
Oct 4, 2026, 04:48Liv Tybjærg Nordestgaard: Is Fasting Necessary Before Blood Sampling?
-
Oct 4, 2026, 04:31Sonal Sonu: Gen Z doesn’t just set trends – Gen Z saves lives
-
Oct 4, 2026, 04:22Registration Opens for 2027 Highlights of ASH – American Society of Hematology