@agewellwithdrstep: What health conditions do people who live to 100 actually have? In the largest U.S. study of centenarians ever, high blood pressure was common, while cancer, obesity, and diabetes were rare. The takeaway isn't that high blood pressure is harmless. It's that a treatable condition, well managed, doesn't have to stand between you and a long life. Source: • Nateghi Haredasht F et al., "Hypertension, but Not Cancer or Obesity, Is Compatible With Extreme Longevity: A Multi-Institution Analysis of 733,919 US Centenarians," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2026.

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