Being the U.S. President is a stressful task — just reckon at how quickly our last few leaders have gone gray while in office . But is that stress enough to cut their lifespan ? A piece of inquiry in this calendar month ’s Journal of the American Medical Association answer that call into question definitively .
In the study , Dr. Jay Olshansky compare the age of destruction of US prexy against how long their contemporaries were living . He begin by saying he want to prove a mutual myth :
One physician suggested that the typical prexy age 2 years for every twelvemonth he is in function - a determination derived from aesculapian records of chair since the 1920s . Although the pace of biologic aging can not be measured , it is possible to indirectly assess title of accelerated ripening among presidents .
Olshansky analyze data from the Social Security Administration life table and the Human Mortality Database , and establish that 23 of 34 presidents who give out of born causes lived beyond the average life-time anticipation for virile coeval of the same eld . So while we all gaze at photos of Obama and wonder when he went grey , it ’s deserving remembering that president are by and large super wealthy , well educated , and have access to some of the good health care on the planet . As stressful as their lives are , it is n’t transport them to an former grave .
Read the full papervia Journal of the American Medical Association .
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