Gli americani più ricchi hanno un’aspettativa di vita inferiore rispetto agli europei
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-04-03/richest-americans-have-lower-life-expectancy-than-europeans.html
di nimicdoareu
Gli americani più ricchi hanno un’aspettativa di vita inferiore rispetto agli europei
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-04-03/richest-americans-have-lower-life-expectancy-than-europeans.html
di nimicdoareu
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**A study confirms that the wealthy live longer than the poor globally, and that differences between social classes are much more pronounced in the US**
In a city like Madrid, men live, on average, three years longer in the Chamartín neighborhood, with greater purchasing power, than in Puente de Vallecas, a working-class area.
The trend is similar worldwide, because economic capacity correlates with health and life expectancy. However, according to a recent publication in The New England Journal of Medicine, this dynamic changes when comparing the rich and poor in the U.S. and Europe.
The study, led by Irene Papanicolas, a professor of health services at the Brown School of Public Health, sampled 73,000 Americans and Europeans aged between 50 and 85.
They were followed since 2010 to observe the effect of wealth on an individual’s likelihood of dying. First, it was found that, in both the U.S. and Europe, the rich lived longer than the poor, although the gap was much greater in the United States.
This finding was consistent with previous studies showing that the wealthy live longer, but when the comparison was made across continents, the result was even more surprising.
**Mortality rates across all wealth levels in the U.S. were higher than in the European regions included in the study. The wealthiest Americans had a lower life expectancy than the wealthiest Europeans, and did not exceed that of the poorest in some European countries such as Germany, France, and the Netherlands.**
I don’t care how rich you are, you can’t comfortably afford medical care in The US.
Why exactly is this considered surprising? Americans are extremely obese and eat food that is insanely unhealthy. Having money won’t make up for having a shit lifestyle.
Makes me want to eat some chlorinated chicken./s
Clearly Americans aren’t using enough ketamine and sniffing tax cuts.
Is this going to get posted every hour?
I am Canadian. European you have much better lifestyle habbits even when compare to us. I am not suprised by those results.
It’s the shite in the food, corn syrup and chemicals, beef from cows that were fed on anything but actual grass, bread that’s basically full of sugar for no actual reason, chicken that’s been pumped full of steroids and dipped in chlorine.
That’s what those chlorinated chickens will do for you 🫡
Don’t threaten me with a good time
That is because, as is well documented, they ate all the pies.
We walk in Europe… 🤷♀️
Here’s an interesting fact. Getting everything you want isn’t always good for you. US doctors tend to use too many tests and procedures “just in case” to avoid being sued for malpractice. Also rich people with really good healthcare policies tend to want screenings of everything “just in case”. However, every test and procedure has some risk and/or side-effect. This means that in fact getting these thorough screenings is usually worse for you because the risk of the procedures outweighs the benefits.
So even rich people get worse healthcare because of the current system.
Meanwhile in public healthcare you only get what you actually need. Sure you may sometimes have to wait longer than you want (as if that wasn’t also often a problem in the US, at least if you aren’t rich enough to pay to skip the queue) but outcomes are much better.
Statistics really don’t mean much at the individual level. I’m American married to an Italian.
We lost my Italian father-in-law at 68 a little less than a year ago to colon cancer. Way too soon.
My mother-in-law is Italian too, and her mother is still alive in her 90s, but has tragically outlived not only one of her daughters, but also her granddaughter, who both died of different cancers. The granddaughter died a few years ago in her 40s and left behind 2 young children. It’s really sad, her kids are growing up without their mother and without one of their grandmothers.
None of them had bad habits or poor lifestyles. They all got great care in Italy, but in the end, it wasn’t enough.
My American parents are in their mid-70s and still alive. My dad has been in a pre-cancerous stage of multiple myeloma for almost 2 decades that he’s been lucky enough to slow down.
In the end, the only health outcomes that matter are yours and your family’s. If there’s something that could have been done differently, I wish that my FIL had gotten colon cancer screening sooner in his life.
Now THAT really surprises me.
How is that possible?
And I don’t even think Europeans are particularly healthy….
I guess having food and health standards really does help, doesn’t it
It’s too long and should be shorter tbh
Good.
Ultraprocessed foods are a staple of the American diet no matter which strata of society you belong to.
Like, Elon Musk would not be that tubby if he stuck to whole foods.
Meanwhile my country: even lower life expectancy 😐.
Is there a single post on this sub that isn’t about America? What thoroughly obsessed people Europeans are XD
Are Italian plumbers involved in the making of these statistics?
Make a swimming pool for your chickens!