The more money we have, the longer we live. How old we get specific depends on whether we live in the US or in Europe. American scientists have now discovered it.
“The results showed that people with higher assets tend to live longer than people with lower assets,” says Brown University in Providence or their study results. This applies “especially in the United States, where the gap between rich and poor is considerably larger than in Europe.”
Poorer mortality earlier
For the study, people between 50 and 85 years old from Europe and the US were examined for a period of about 10 years. Almost a fifth of the people died in the course of the study. For comparison, it appears that death in the richest quarter was the lowest in both Europe and the US – the highest in the poorest quarter.
Differences between the US and Europe
But even if you compare the United States and Europe, there are differences. “The survival gap between the top and the lowest power district was greater in the United States than in Europe,” the scientists write. The richest quarter in the United States had a similar chance of survival as the poorest quarter in the Northern and Western European countries.
After 10 years, only two -thirds of the participants lived in the study of the poorest quarter in the United States, in the north of and West -Europe it was around 80 percent. If you look at the richest quarter, there is also a difference: the richest in the US had a survival percentage of just over 80 percent, in the north of and Western Europe it was 85 percent.
Life expectancy in the United States decreased
Moreover, life expectancy in the United States has decreased in recent years, says study -author Irene Papanicolas, professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown University. “The results strongly remind you that even the richest Americans are not protected against systemic problems in the United States that contribute to a lower life expectancy, such as economic inequality,” the expert explains.
Source: Krone
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