Your choice of degree may determine your life expectancy

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Education graduates? We're already dead; we just don't know it!

 

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The study, which was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, examined the medical records and death rates of 8,367 male students at Scotland's Glasgow University who matriculated between 1948 and 1968. It is believed to be the first study to examine the association between university degree subjects and mortality, reports the Financial Times of London. Why there is any correlation at all between field of study and longevity is still not known, and lead researcher Dr. Peter McCarron cautioned that the conclusions in the study are speculative at best.

First of all, it studied only MALE students


Here are the highlights by major field of study:
Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Sciences: Medical students lived the longest of all, but they were the most likely to suffer an alcohol-related death. This was also the third most likely field--after law and divinity--to die from an accident, suicide, or violence. Although medical students were the second heaviest smokers while in college, they kicked the habit once they graduated since their death rates from lung cancer were so low


They live the longest byt they are the most depressed and suicidal and alocholic.

So are sicentists and engineers happier than Medical Students?


Theology: Although divinity school students had the lowest blood pressure and were the least likely to drink alcohol, they were twice as likely to die from respiratory diseases later in life. Overall, they had a 10 percent greater risk of death than the medical students. Oddly, theology scholars were the most likely of all to succumb to a fatal accident, suicide, or violent death.

Law: Students of the law died the earliest of all majors except liberal arts and social sciences with a 30 percent higher risk of death than the medical students. Their untimely demise can be explained by this: They were the heaviest smokers.

Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: These students, like their friends who studied law, died the earliest, but they were only half as likely as medical students to die by suicide or an accident. However, they were twice as likely as medical students to die of lung cancer due to their propensity to smoke. Overall, their risk of death was 42 percent higher than the medical students


At least the Liberal Arts and Social Science students die happy!!!!