It turns out that politicians live longer than all of us - and the gap is only growing

You also ask yourself how is it that many politicians have accompanied us for years and years and are still at the height of their power?

This study has an answer and is particularly interesting

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04/07/2022

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Politicians around the world tend to live longer than the general population, a new study has found that reflects the widening health gap between elites and "ordinary people."

And if that’s not enough, the gaps are gradually widening, according to the study.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, politicians in most countries surveyed tended to have similar mortality rates to the general population.

However, throughout the 20th century, differences in mortality rates increased greatly in all countries.

This means that the "survival advantage" of politicians over the general population is today the highest it has been in the last 150 years.

The findings come from a new study from Oxford University recently published in the European Journal of Epidemiology.

The researchers concluded after examining data on more than 57,500 politicians from 11 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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7-year gap in life expectancy between politicians and people from the settlement.

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The team found information for all countries from 1945 to 2014, but the full analysis included politicians in some countries with longer records, from 1816 to 2017.

Currently, life expectancy gaps range from about 3 years in Switzerland to 7 years in the US. B. Meanwhile, a typical person in the general public in Italy is 2.2 times more likely to die over the next year compared to a politician of the same age and sex. In New Zealand this figure is 1.2 times.

"The results show that the survival advantage of politicians today is very high compared to -20.

"Interestingly, the mortality gaps we document usually began to rise half a century earlier than the well-documented increases in income inequality since the 1980s," said Dr. Lawrence Ropp, a research author and senior researcher at the Oxford Center for Health Economics (HERC), in a statement.

What are the reasons?

There are a number of factors that are estimated to underlie this very clear trend.

For example, there were high rates of smoking in the first half of the 20th century, even among the upper class.

However, the numbers have been going down since the 1950s.

Perhaps, the study suggests, smoking rates have dropped faster among politicians than in the general public, which partly explains the life expectancy gaps that grew in many countries after 1950.

Alternatively, it may have something to do with heart health.

Politicians tend to have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than other people, but these conditions have been treated more easily since antihypertensive drugs became widely available in the 1960s.

Another major component - and perhaps the most obvious - is wealth and economic inequality.

Politicians earn significantly higher salaries than the average population, which brings clear benefits to longevity and health.

Nevertheless, researchers argue that this factor is not as pronounced as it may first appear, as inequality began to rise in the 1980s, but differences in life expectancy began to widen decades earlier.

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