Re: one for the fitness fascisti
- From: Earl <neptune@xxxxxx>
- Date: 04 Sep 2006 21:56:50 GMT
Gary James <gnjames43REMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:gb7pf298qog5o26bvumghqo40vr04v7r07@xxxxxxx:
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:10:23 -0700, El Castor
<NotAnyone@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"rick++" <rick303@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Guy lives to 112 on junk diet.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13119227/
Good genes. Just like good genes can make you smart, they
can also make you live a long time.
I wonder if there have been any studies showing if there is
a relationship between IQ and longevity ? I kind of doubt
there is a link. In my experience, smart people seem to
be under more strain in life than are dullards and thereby
suffer early death due to stress.
Quite a few studies -- and yes there is a correlation.
for example -- the long term Scottish study.
http://www.hbns.org/news/longevity09-24-03.cfm
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Release Date: Sept. 24, 2003
STUDY LINKS IQ AND
AFFLUENCE LEVEL TO LONGEVITY
By Aaron Levin, Science Writer
Health Behavior News Service
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By following nearly 1,000 subjects during a 70-year span,
Scottish researchers have found that people with high IQs who
reside in poor neighborhoods lived longer than people in similar
areas with low IQs, while the intelligence score was not
important for longevity for people living in wealthy
neighborhoods.
?The significant interaction found between IQ and deprivation
suggests that IQ in childhood is less important in terms of
mortality for people who live in more affluent areas in
adulthood than for people who live in deprived areas,? says
Carole L. Hart, Ph.D., of the University of Glasgow and
colleagues from other universities in Scotland.
Their findings are published in the September issue of
Psychosomatic Medicine.
The high-IQ individuals may have lived long lives because they
learned better health behaviors early in life or because higher
mental ability allowed them to better cope with adverse
situations over the years, the researchers suggest.
The study examined results of the Scottish Mental Survey, an
intelligence test held June 1, 1932, for 87,498 Scottish
schoolchildren born in 1921.
The researchers then compared this data to records from a group
of medical studies of adults in Scotland carried out in the
1960s and 1970s. These ?Midspan? studies collected data about
the subjects? home address, age and occupation, along with
information about their cardiovascular and respiratory health.
Two of the Midspan studies enrolled more than 24,000 working-age
participants ? including some born in 1921. Hart?s team was able
to match 938 of these subjects to their mental ability scores on
the 1932 test. Based on home neighborhood and occupation, they
then categorized the subjects according to deprivation and
social class. Finally, they used health and hospital records to
determine the causes and dates of death of this group over the
next quarter-century.
Over those 25 years, 51 percent of the men and 38 percent of the
women in the study died. In simple terms, there was a 17 percent
greater chance of death for every 15 points of lower childhood
IQ. After adjusting for deprivation and social class, this
difference was reduced to 12 percent. These adjustments
separated socioeconomic effects from IQ and explained some, but
not all, of the differences associated with lower IQ.
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