Live Longer: Marry an Educated Woman

From today’s BBC Health News comes an important discovery for Men’s health – men who marry educated women live longer. Educated women live longer. Who a man marries matters more than his own education. You can read the entire article by clicking on the blue type, above.

This study does not say you need to marry a Swedish woman. . . you need to marry an educated woman!

Educated women ‘aid long life’

A university education is important to longevity, the study suggests

A well-educated woman positively influences both her own and her partner’s chances of a long life, Swedish research suggests.

A man whose partner had only a school education has a 25% greater risk of dying early than if she had had a university education, it suggests.

The authors say educated women may be more likely to understand the various health messages their families needed.

The findings are based on a study of 1.5m working Swedes, aged 30 to 59.

The study, in the journal of Epidemiology and Community Healthcare, says that in the case of men, it is their income and social status that affect women’s lifespan.

The researchers looked at data from the 1990 Swedish census and followed up information on causes of death, including cancer and circulatory diseases like heart disease and stroke from the cause of death registers up to 2003.

University education
A woman’s education and social status were more important for a man’s life chances than his own education, the findings indicate.

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