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Nature 456, 175-176 (13 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/456175a; Published online 12 November 2008
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Why do intelligent people live longer?
Ian Deary1
- Ian Deary is director of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK.
Email: i.deary@ed.ac.uk
Abstract
We must discover why cognitive differences are related to morbidity and mortality, argues Ian Deary, in order to help tackle health inequalities.
Ten years ago, on 16 October 1998, I presented findings that people from Aberdeen with higher childhood IQs — measured at age 11 in the Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 — were significantly more likely to survive to age 76. It was at a psychology seminar at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.
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