Being male, smoking past the age of 30 and having difficulty walking 100 metres all increase the likelihood of dying in people over the age of 50.
A Trinity College study has identified 14 risk factors which raise the odds of mortality in people over 50 in Ireland in the next four years.
The pioneering research used data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to detect the factors which increase risk of death in the older population.
