The level of education affects life expectancy

A team of U.S. scientists from several universities and institutes in the United States examined the mortality data of its 3.5 million citizens between 1993 and 2001. It was found that the difference in life expectancy between the educated and uneducated people is growing every year. Dunno still sing: "In the world of books written thousands, perhaps a million, and perhaps trilony Read it and you're really old, decrepit old man, gray-haired .." How so? Researchers considered the annual mortality among different groups of men and women and found that significantly. The number of deaths in each age group among black (36%) and white (25%) of the men who reduced at least finished college And the main causes of death were previously HIV infection, cancer and heart disease, and now they are relegated to the background. Have mastered for those who (do or not able) the only grammar school, then their death rate is on the contrary increased (for various reasons). The largest annual "growth" (3.2%) were white women who did not graduate from high school. But even among white women who were in a position, the high school away, the death rate increased from 0.7% per year. "This study is the presence of socio-economic inequalities between the educated and uneducated people confirmed, over the years, the gap in mortality rates, but more and more increasing." - Said Dr. Otis Brawley (Otis Brawley), chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (American Cancer Society). Scientists believe that people with less education less financial situation, most are not often covered by health insurance (due to a non-permanent employment, for example). They know little about medicine in general and particularly on the achievements of modern science. As a result, when the mortality rate is reduced in the middle layer, the lower layers are capable of deteriorating the opposite. All data were obtained from the archives of the National System of Civil Accounting U.S. (National Vital Statistics System). It is interesting that a similar previous study (published in the April issue of the journal PLoS Medicine) considered the 1983 to 1999 years, and showed no pattern between education and mortality.