The health of millennia collapses after 27 years, according to a study

New research reveals that it is only 27 years old.

According to Blue Cross Blue Shield's new report, at least if you're millennia old, chronic diseases begin to develop from the end of your 20s, and the situation continues to deteriorate.

The millennial health, by generation, is overall worse than that of their predecessors, Generation X, with higher rates of depression, hyperactivity, substance abuse, type 2 diabetes, and Crohn's disease, among other chronic diseases.

The report warns that the health sector needs to know that the millennium is facing growing and perhaps unprecedented health problems that could cost years of life and cost money and money. productivity to the US economy.

Everything is downhill: a depressing graph shows a significant decline in health that begins after 27 years and continues until the death of Generation Y

The epidemic of obesity, the epidemic of opioids, the epidemic of mental illnesses: Americans are depreciating a number of health crises.

And the older millennia are at the heart of these, according to the new report.

Blue Cross Blue Shield badyzed data from 55 million millennials – aged 21 to 36 in 2017 – to calculate the overall health score of the generation (which includes 73 million Americans in total).

Overall, the generation did well, achieving a rate of 95.1, which means that just over 95% of the age group was living in optimal health that year.

But the story of the era of selfies, toast to the lawyer, influencers and some nuance of non-confrontational rose darkens with age.

When researchers focused on Generation Y aged 34 to 36 years, they found higher rates of almost all of the 10 most common conditions than Generation X at the same ages – despite the fact that 83 % of Millennials think they are in "good" or "excellent" health.

According to this new study, the group's major depression rates are 18% higher than those of their generational predecessors, as well as higher rates of substance use disorders by 12%.

According to the new study, the millennium generation has only made gains compared to Generation X in one of the ten best conditions. Three percent less of Generation Y have "psychotic conditions" compared to Generation X members in 2014.

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are also 15% more common among older millennials.

The increase in inflammatory bowel disease should be of concern to health-care providers and caregivers of Generation Y as it represents a significant risk of colorectal cancer, which strikes – and kills – more and more people. Americans at a younger age.

Not surprisingly, as the obesity epidemic continues to affect the United States, type 2 diabetes is more prevalent and affects 4.1 over 100 years (an increase of 19% over generation X).

The Millennials scored 95.1 on their overall health (dark blue), but this mark falls (orange) as you move southeast on the map. The southern United States suffers more obesity and poverty, which increases the health risks for Millennials and others in the region.

In the United States, the smoking rate reached its lowest level of last year, a figure that the authorities consider a major victory for the health of Americans.

However, older Y-generation women manage to resist this trend, with a 10% higher rate of tobacco addiction than Generation X.

High levels of cholesterol and blood pressure have also increased among the generation.

But no increase was as significant as hyperactivity rates, which are 37% more prevalent in millennia in their mid-thirties than in X-broods.

In recent years, health experts have suggested that ADHD has been over-diagnosed and over-medicated, which may partly explain the wide disparity.

Nevertheless, the behavioral conditions taken together were 8% more common in the millennia in 2017 than in the generations in 2014.

And overall adverse health conditions were 11% more prevalent, a difference that mainly affects the rising rates of cardiovascular disease.

Endocrine diseases, including diabetes, are now 15% more common in their mid-30s.

This rise may be due in part to rising rates of obesity and the still dominant Western diet, with its sugary, fatty and highly processed foods.

Health scores also drop in the millennia as you move south and east, with the lowest scores in states like Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

It turns out that these are some of the states with the highest rates of obesity and the poorest diets.

The millennial generation may speak only of "well-being" under the influence of Instagram influences, but the latest available data suggest that generation members are not as healthy as they are. think it behind the filters – and that this could also affect other generations.

"Millennial health is likely to have a significant impact on the US economy over the next two decades, particularly in terms of productivity in the workplace and health care costs," the report's authors warned. .