12 items comprised the risk calculator, including age, gender, tobacco use, body mass index, diabetes, non-skin cancer, chronic lung disease, heart failure, difficulty breathing, difficulty managing finances, difficulty walking several blocks, and/or difficulty pushing/pulling large objects. Depending upon your answer, you might gain 0, 1 or 2 points. The lowest sum was zero while the greatest was 26. It turns out that those without any points (zero score) had a 3% mortality over the next decade while those with scores >14 had a 95% chance of not making to the next decade.
So aside from that anomaly, it's pretty clear that lowest mortality is associated with younger women who don't smoke, don't have diabetes/cancer/lung disease/heart disease or any functional limitations. Well, while we can't do anything about our age & gender, that still leaves 10 risk factors under our control. In other words, we are the master of our fate.
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