A hypothetical drug that abolishes all heart attacks in people over 50 would increase median human lifespan by less than 3%.

“to put this into perspective these drugs are giving like 15 to at at the M middle dose 15 to 20% increase in median lifespan to to give a sense of what that means if you had a cure for cancer in people no one over the age of 5050 ever got cancer again median lifespan of humans would go up by 3% and the same is true if you had a drug that abolished heart attacks no one over the age of 50 ever got a heart attack again uh median lifespan for people would go up by less than 3% that's work done by Jay olshansky and Bruce KS and published in science in 1990”