Studien bringen Armut und Schulden mit einem frühen Tod der Amerikaner in Verbindung. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass Menschen, deren ungesicherte Schulden im Laufe der Zeit zunahmen, ein um 89 % höheres Risiko eines vorzeitigen Todes hatten als diejenigen, deren Schulden konstant niedrig blieben.

People with poverty-level family income or increasing debt levels during early adulthood have higher odds of premature death, two studies published in the November issue of The Lancet Public Health suggest.

Further, the more time spent in poverty or with increasing levels of debt, the higher the risk of early death, results showed.

„Greater cumulative exposure to poverty across emerging and established adulthood is associated with a greater risk for premature mortality,“ senior researcher Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, said in a news release.

Both studies used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a study tracking people born in the United States between 1957 and 1964.

The first study found that of more than 5,600 participants, 8% were always in poverty; 33% often in poverty; another 33% sometimes in poverty; and 26% were never impoverished over a 20-year follow-up.

Those who were always in poverty had a 2.5 times greater risk of premature death, compared to a 53% increased risk for those often in poverty and 10% for those sometimes in poverty, results showed.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468266725002269

Consistent with what we already knew: high IQ leads to all sorts of better life decisions.

Lets see. Terrible diet. Terrible healthcare. Terrible education. Terrible jobs. Terrible financial advise. Terrible access to public services if they exist at all. etc etc etc… Usually terrible families to go along with all the above lead to early death? Yeah. We know.

I had an uncle that used to look forward to its arrival because then he „could get some actual sleep around here“… He wasnt kidding.