Election risk: Elected heads of government win greater risk of early death

我们常常看到它常常发生：候选人的年轻探视成为，在几年短的几年里，一个国家的头脑。但这是这种观察到的快速老龄化证据，对国家的国家大规模的统计上有重大的健康影响吗？

哈佛医学院助理医疗学院副教授Anupam Jena领导的研究人员团队，并列出了测试领导国家政府的政治家可能会过早死亡的理论。

After adjusting for life expectancy at time of last election, the team found that elected leaders lived 2.7 fewer years and experienced a 23 percent greater risk of death compared to runners-up.

"This suggests that the stress of governing may substantially accelerate mortality for our elected leaders," said Anupam Jena, who is also a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

结果在圣诞节问题上发表BMJ.。

"By comparing the lifespans of elected leaders with runners-up, we were able to calculate the mortality cost of winning elections and serving as head of state," said co-author Andrew Olenski, HMS research assistant in医疗保健政策。

The researchers compared 279 nationally elected leaders from 17 countries to 261 unelected candidates who never served in office.该研究小组由从1722年到2015年发生的选举中的候选人组成。

研究人员确定了每个竞争对手在最后一次选举之后居住的年数，并将结果与​​与选举年份相同年龄和性别的人民的平均寿命。

The researchers designed their study to overcome the limitations of similar studies of elected officials and other successful individuals.

研究人员表示，其他人的研究表明对美国总统的预期没有显着影响，也许是因为样品尺寸太小。此外，由于单独的社会经济地位，预计总统将远远超过一般人群。先前研究的失败检测差异表明，作为总统的死亡率可能已经被掩盖。类似的研究预期期望对于课堂奖和诺贝尔奖等着名奖品的获奖者也已经进行。

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