You will want your doctor to analyze why these came up with totally opposite conclusions. Traveling for work was pounding my body and mind, second best thing I ever did was early retirement at 62, first was having the stroke.
Retire at 55 and live to 80; work till you’re 65 and die at 67. Startling new data shows how work pounds older bodies
The latest here:
Association of retirement age with mortality: a population-based longitudinal study among older adults in the USA
Abstract
Background
Retirement is an important transitional process in later life. Despite a
large body of research examining the impacts of health on retirement,
questions still remain regarding the association of retirement age with
survival. We aimed to examine the association between retirement age and
mortality among healthy and unhealthy retirees and to investigate
whether sociodemographic factors modified this association.
Methods
On the basis of the Health and Retirement Study, 2956 participants who
were working at baseline (1992) and completely retired during the
follow-up period from 1992 to 2010 were included. Healthy retirees
(n=1934) were defined as individuals who self-reported health was not an
important reason to retire. The association of retirement age with
all-cause mortality was analysed using the Cox model. Sociodemographic
effect modifiers of the relation were examined.
Results
Over the study period, 234 healthy and 262 unhealthy retirees died.
Among healthy retirees, a 1-year older age at retirement was associated
with an 11% lower risk of all-cause mortality (95% CI 8% to 15%),
independent of a wide range of sociodemographic, lifestyle and health
confounders. Similarly, unhealthy retirees (n=1022) had a lower
all-cause mortality risk when retiring later (HR 0.91, 95% CI 0.88 to
0.94). None of the sociodemographic factors were found to modify the
association of retirement age with all-cause mortality.
Conclusions Early retirement may be a risk factor for mortality and prolonged working life may provide survival benefits among US adults.
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