Tuesday April 22, 2008
Thinking of retiring early: THINK TWICE

After all day of exhausting work, we hope to retire soon some day. The study from Greece shed some light on it. 16,827 men and women enrolled from 1994 to 1999 were gainfully employed or had retired from such employment at enrollment, had previously not been diagnosed with chronic diseases or cancer. Cox regression model, controlling for potential confounders revealed that in comparison to subjects still employed, retirees had a 51% increase in all cause mortality. Among retirees, a 5 year increase in age at retirement was associated with a 10% decrease in mortality. Findings were more evident for cardiovascular than cancer mortality. Results indicated that early retirement in healthy person is associated with all cause and cardiovascular mortality [1].


Conclusion: Keep working, don’t worry.


Reference: click to get article

Bamia C, Trichopolou A, Trichopoulos D. Age at retirement and mortality in a general population sample: the Greek EPIC study. Am J Epidemiol 2008; 167(5): 561-9.