Study: Higher education can help you live longer
A study published July 8 in the scientific journal PLOS ONE that found people who receive higher education outlive those who do not. What鈥檚 more, it also found that failing to obtain a high education could be as detrimental to a person鈥檚 life as smoking cigarettes.
The authors of the study include professors and research associates from the University of Colorado-Denver, New York University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. This includes Patrick Krueger, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado-Denver鈥檚 Anschutz Medical Campus and a member of the research faculty at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder.