New online calculator - risk of death in the next five years. Apparently more accurate than usual, blah de blah, who knows.
Anyway, the bad news for you is that there is a 98.2% chance I won't die in the next five years. I'm 52 but I have a score of someone aged 48. Which I suppose is nice.
Only a few questions. No, the percentage score at the top as you go isn't the risk increasing, as I first thought, to my horror.
Off you go.
www.ubble.co.uk
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Age 66 with 4.6% risk of dying in next 5 years
Suppose its worth getting the bathroom done then.
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As a fully paid up hypochondriac I would not even dream of clicking that link.
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Probably not one for you then:
www.death-clock.org/
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I am too old for ubble.
The death clock says I will die on 16th December 2018.
Hmm.
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>>As a fully paid up hypochondriac I would not even dream of clicking that link.
Go for it. I'd take it with a pinch of salt. It reckons I've got a 0.9% chance in the next 5 years and rates me as a 40 year old, I'm 46.
I've been told in the past I have HBP which I took prescribed meds for but I reckon it was down to stress at work. I no longer take the meds and my BP is back under 120/80.
I also have gout which I appear to have under control so get ready for the thread tomorrow of it reappearing. Gout attacks I have narrowed down to beer, particularly p***y weak, lager type beers. I now avoid those. Some people might call it growing up I suppose.
Last edited by: gmac on Thu 4 Jun 15 at 19:14
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I also have gout which I appear to have under control so get ready for
>> the thread tomorrow of it reappearing. Gout attacks I have narrowed down to beer, particularly
>> p***y weak, lager type beers. I now avoid those.
Sticking to the stronger stuff, good man.
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I'm 62 but my 'Ubble' age is 55 and my 5 year risk of dying is 3.1%
^_^
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I don't want to know. At 76 I am on borrowed time anyway. So far so good.
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Shhh! CGNorwich is collecting this and feeding it back to the actuaries.
Tomorrows Daily Express: We're all living to 110 and retiring far too early. House prices have gone up £5,000 overnight and we'll never see the likes of Princess Diana again.
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50 / 35, 0.6%.
I'm intrigued to know why the number of cars available to you (2 in my case) is relevant; is it bad (might get killed in one of them) or good (er...)?
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The number of cars is a useful indicator of economic status. Unfortunately the poor tend to die young.
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Ah that makes sense; thanks.
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>> The number of cars is a useful indicator of economic status. Unfortunately the poor tend
>> to die young.
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But if you have two cars might you not be inclined to nip the few hundred yards down to the newsagent in the car and pick up a chocolate bar in the process ?
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>> The number of cars is a useful indicator of economic status. Unfortunately the poor tend
>> to die young.
Reduced my number of cars from 2 to 1 and aged by 2 years :o
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>> The number of cars is a useful indicator of economic status.
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I can think of more accurate indicators.
I should live for ever - two classic cars, an old Volvo, a spare old Volvo, two half-dismantled old Volvos, half another Triumph in pieces, an old tractor, and a family Corsa which I don't like owning up to.
Obviously much richer than someone with just one Bentley.
But the latest indicator is supposed to be your walking speed. People who dawdle get ill.
Apparently it's much more accurate than blood pressure and scans etc.
Doctors have known this for years. That's why mine is always hovering in his doorway when my name is called - so he can observe my brisk jaunty walk.
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People who dawdle don't get ill.
Unfit or ill people tend to dawdle
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Don't worry AC, I have been on borrowed time for 30odd years. I don't need a computer game to tell me. Anyway it gave me 11.6% and a year younger, which I am well pleased with if it is anywhere near accurate, but I have my doubts.
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Age 46 (I'm 53) , 1.4%
I didn't ask if I ride motorcycles - I guess if it did the result may be different!
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I was wondering why push-bikes weren't also taken into account given the relatively high death rate (IIRC - might be wrong). But perhaps the improved fitness cancels that out? Or just not statistically significant at this broad level.
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48 (actual age 60). 1.7 percent. Oddly no questions about drinking so not too smug!
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Actual 53, UbbLE 41, 1% chance. That's OK then. Back to me John Smith's.
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Actual age 69...Ubble 71. 13.6. Not bad, I thought with heart, diabetes et al.
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29 (actual age 44) and a 0.4% probability I'll die on the next 5 years. Best crack open another bottle to celebrate ;)
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Quite chuffed. Age 38, which is 8 years less than reality. 0.5% chance of death in 5 years.
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Excellent - it took 9 years off my age and I only have a 2% chance of carking it
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>> Excellent - it took 9 years off my age and I only have a 2% chance of carking it
Not so good for the rest of us though!
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>>Not so good for the rest of us though!
I'm wiv ^this^ Geyser.
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Interesting.
Both SWMBO's and my details are in the Biobank database.
They have just emailed asked re imaging me for the database.
Imaging was started a year ago they are aiming for 100K folks to be scanned.
Not cheap research but IMO a well worth project.
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Interesting......
Had me as 63 years old with a 6.7 risk ....I am 66
I suppose it fills a bit of time sitting in Gatwick departure lounge contemplating flying into the raging thunderstorms outside.....
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>> Both SWMBO's and my details are in the Biobank database.
>> They have just emailed asked re imaging me for the database.
>> Imaging was started a year ago they are aiming for 100K folks to be scanned.
I was Biobanked too - found the 'thank you' email from June 2011. Said they'd reached their target of 500k, which might explain why I haven't heard of 'imaging' if they're only doing 1 in 5. What is it - whole body scan?
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0.4%, 28 years. Real age 45. I think they need to ask me a few more questions......
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0.4%, 30 years, real age 40. Happy with that considering I smoked like a trooper up until just under 3 years ago. Nothing about weight or alcohol consumption though :)
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If life expectancy is increasing, then surely everyone will get a "good" result? We are all younger than our numerical age.
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I'm not old enough to take part in the test, still did it though :)
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53 (I'm 65 in August), 2.6 per cent.
At the moment it feels as though the process of claiming my State retirement pension (at last) from abroad is materially shortening my life...
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My Ubble age is 53 years
My five-year risk of dying is 2.8%
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I reckon you lot are lying:-0)
Aged 57. Made me 61. 5.4% of carking it. Don't spose the cancer thing helped. Never smoked though. Now where did I put my Hobgoblin?
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>>Never smoked though.
That's where yoos have gorn wrong b'cos the ex smokers on here have have done remarkably, um, well.
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>> Now where did I put my Hobgoblin?
Straight down yer neck, I hope!
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On the strength of what it said earlier, I went out for my customary (brisk) walk, even though it's 34C in the shade here, a new June record for this area apparently. Nearly did for me...
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>>Nearly did for me...
Andrew Marr has a rowing machine for sale, I hear.
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Ubble 51, actual 62, 2.3% chance of dying in the next 5 years. No questions about weight, alcohol or exercise, or how many vegetables I eat- surprising. Probably no reliable data.
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Suppose someone's actual age is 60, and the standard tables say for example that he has a life expectancy of 15 years - ie will live to 75.
Now imagine that they bring out some revised tables. Everyone is living longer, and his life expectancy has increased to 20 years, ie he will live to 80.
His effective age is now 55 - he feels like 55, has a life expectancy previously enjoyed by a 55 year old, and all his friends are in the same position.
In fact jast like everyone on C4P, who almost universally and rather smugly report effective ages about 5 years less than their real ages. They would, wouldn't they? We are all living longer.
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