Introduction:
People traditionally believe that intelligent people are normally with shorter life expectancy. However, a recent study by the London School of Economics led subvert this view. Scientists from the United States, Sweden, Denmark study 7407 twins who are still alive as a sample survey, and this study was published in the July 26 "International Journal of Epidemiology," which demonstrate: the more intelligent people are tend to have a longer life, and all factors are gene-related.
And those of "the more work, the more luck" as the motto of readers, I also firmly believe that: each lucky now, have had a hard-working past.
However, the relationship between "intelligence" and "life" traditionally we all thought that the higher the IQ, the shorter the life expectancy, for example, left-handed; but the latest study found that first revolutionized the traditional understanding, the first time that "the more intelligent, more longevity. "
July 26 "International Journal of Epidemiology" (International Journal of Epidemiology), a study on research from the United States National Academy of Sciences - 1377 pairs of twins, twin registries of World War II after the National Research Council, the Swedish twin Registry at 2246 pairs of twins, and the Danish twin Registry at 3784 pairs of twins, the study found: smart people live longer, the possible reason is that with the smart genes may exist "superiority" genetically.
Who lead this research?
The study by Professor Rosalind Arden Genetic Epidemiology from the London School of Economics dominant, London School of Economics and Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, University College London, adding that "G5 super elite university," is also the UK golden Triangle schools. Yes, our "national husband", "President Wang" Crestron brother graduated from the institutions of higher learning. Prof. Arden end of the paper, said, "The more intelligent, more longevity," the deeper reason may be, socioeconomic status may affect the person's IQ and health.
How is the relation between IQ and longevity?
The researchers first three sets of twins gathered data samples from the United States National Academy of Sciences - World War II Twin Registry database of the National Research Council, the Swedish and Danish twins record database, including monozygotic twins (genetically identical) and fraternal twins (identical half genetic information), and includes indicators associated with intelligence and life-related information. All the data are of the same sex twins, and one of the twins had died.
For samples of the above three groups, they use a variety of genetic analysis methods, try to find between IQ and longevity correlation exists. By multivariate regression analysis showed that: between IQ and longevity correlation between the presences of 95%, the results of three separate samples were 84%, 86% and 85% correlation.
The study concluded that IQ and longevity are correlated primarily because of genetic or a gene. The twins that have a longer life smarter statistically, since the probability that the phenomenon of twins than in fraternal twins is higher, it further illustrates the differences that exist in the presence of the gene may be working with the intelligence and life relevant, and these may be associated with relevance for everyone genes.
Unfortunately, what is different genes leads to people with high IQs tend to live longer, or that because IQ and longevity jointly determined by genes of a class, there is no definitive evidence.
Although it must be noted that more stringent about the genetic characteristics of a high IQ leads to longevity research, the need to obtain more detailed twins genomic data and data intelligence and life, it may eventually work out exactly which genes affect longevity and relevance IQ, simultaneously or can find out exactly which mutations affecting the life or intelligence itself.
In the end:
And research on the topic of "intelligence" and "lifetime" of and "happiness", is an eternal topic, the study found that common gene association between life and intelligence have important implications for public health.
Proposed this theory may be able to break on the life of wealth and social class influence, as long as you are willing to "ground with the brain," tend to have a better life to become accustomed to the "smart people", you are able to embrace eligible longevity.
In addition, with the rapid development of gene sequencing technology, someday, we might have a more efficient and quantitative methods to determine if they are clever and longevity.
Souce: Novopro 2015-08-03