Greater educational achievement is well established to correlate with greater life expectancy. It is one of a web of correlations linking longevity, intelligence, education, wealth, and socioeconomic status. Untangling the causes of these correlations remains a work in progress, and this will likely continue to be the case for the foreseeable future. Here, researchers use an aging clock based on clinical parameters to produce biological age estimates from past epidemiological study data to show how the correlation between education and biological age has changed over time. They find that educational achievement correlated with a greater slowing of biological age ten years ago than was th…
Changes Over Time in the Correlation Between Education and Biological Age
Greater educational achievement is well established to correlate with greater life expectancy. It is one of a web of correlations linking longevity, intelligence, education, wealth, and socioeconomic status. Untangling the causes of these correlations remains a work in progress, and this will likely continue to be the case for the foreseeable future. Here, researchers use an aging clock based on clinical parameters to produce biological age estimates from past epidemiological study data to show how the correlation between education and biological age has changed over time. They find that educational achievement correlated with a greater slowing of biological age ten years ago than was th…