Mountain dwellers live longer than people in lowland areas

Mountain dwellers live longer than people in lowland areas, finds research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. …

[The researchers] point out that living at moderately high altitude produces long term physiological changes in the body to enable it to cope with lower levels of oxygen, and that this, combined with the exertion required to walk uphill regularly on rugged terrain, could give the heart a better work-out.