Chronic health issues for third in late 40s - study

Chronic health issues for third in late 40s - study About one in three middle-aged people has multiple chronic health issues, a long-running British study suggests.

The 1970 British Cohort Study has been periodically tracking the lives of about 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week.

Nearly 8,000 of them were surveyed for the University College London work, published in journal BMC Public Health.

And 34% had two or more chronic health problems, such as high blood pressure and mental ill-health, at age 46-48. BBC News

See also: 

• Prevalence and early-life determinants of mid-life multimorbidity: evidence from the 1970 British birth cohort (open access) BMC Public Health
• One in three are hit by midlife health crisis The Daily Mail