Even the richest Americans are confronted with a shorter lifespan than their European counterparts, research is found

Comparison of wealth and survival rates in the US with those in Europe, researchers discovered that Americans would die for a period of 10 years in all power levels rather than their European counterparts.

The findings were detailed in a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine By a team led by researchers from the Brown University School of Public Health.

The analysis compared data of more than 73,000 adults in the US and various regions of Europe, in 2010 aged 50 to 85, to determine how wealth influences the opportunities of a person to die. The results showed that people with more wealth tend to live longer than people with less wealth, especially in the US, where the gap between the rich and the poor is much larger than in Europe.

Comparison data also showed that at any power level in the US the death rates were higher than those in the parts of Europe that the researchers studied. The richest Americans in the country have on average shorter lifespan than the richest Europeans. In some cases, the richest Americans have survival rates on the same way with the poorest Europeans in western parts of Europe, such as Germany, France and the Netherlands.

The US life expectancy has fallen in recent years, said study -author Irene Papanicolas, a professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown. The study offers a more detailed picture of life expectancy in the US in the US compared to different parts of Europe, she said.

“The findings are a grim memory that even the richest Americans are not protected from the systemic issues in the US that contribute to lower life expectancy, such as economic inequality or risk factors such as stress, diet or environmental areas,” said Papanicolas, who is the school of public Health Systemt.

“If we want to improve health in the US, we must better understand the underlying factors that contribute to these differences – especially among comparable socio -economic groups – and why they translate into different health results in different countries.”

According to the study, individuals in the richest quartile had a death rate that is 40% lower than for individuals in the poorest quartile. Individuals in continental Europe died by approximately 40% lower than participants in the US during the study period. Participants from South Europe had estimated the death rates at about 30% lower than American participants during the study period, while participants from Eastern Europe had estimated the death rates of 13% to 20% lower.

“We have found that where you stand in the wealth distribution of your country for your lifespan, and where you are in your country compared to where others are also in their things,” said Study author Sara Machado, a research scientist at Sustainability of the Brown’s Center for Health System. “Solving health results is not only a challenge for the most vulnerable – even those in the top quarter of wealth.”

The study, which analyzes data from the American health and pension study and Europe’s research into health, aging and retirement, underlines how weaker social safety nets and structural differences in the US can contribute to poorer chances of survival in all asset groups. These shortcomings influence the poorest inhabitants disproportionately, but ultimately even make the richest Americans be more vulnerable than their European counterparts, the researchers argued.

The study noticed how systemic cultural and behavioral factors, such as diet, smoking and social mobility, can also play a role. For example, smoke percentages and life in the countryside – both linked to poorer health – were more common in the US

The researchers also emphasized a “surviving effect” in the US, where poorer people with poorer health results would die earlier, leaving a population who is healthier and richer as the age groups make progress progress. This creates the illusion that wealth inequality decreases over time, while in reality it is partly due to the early death of the poorest Americans.

“Our earlier work has shown that although wealth inequality is narrower after 65 in the US and Europe, it is smallert in the US in the US because the poorest Americans die earlier and in greater ratio,” said Papanicolas.

The researchers said that the findings give a sobering view of American health results and a call for action for policy makers to tackle a growing gap between wealth mortality with policy that has a broader focus than the shortcomings of the health system.

“If you look at other countries, there are better results, and that means we can learn and improve from them,” Machado said. “It’s not necessarily about spending more – it’s about tackling the factors that we overlook, which could bring much greater benefits than we realize.”