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To smaller education, there is greater cardiac risk

Clarin
April 13, 2007

Education is a key subject in its relation with the brain and the heart. Carlos Regazzoni, in charge of the Program of Prevention of the Cognitivo Deterioration of INECO, speaks of a study in which two American investigators (Hauser and Kitawa) observed that the educative level was an independent determinant of the risk of dying of the people. Per year more people with educative level died under which people with secondary or tertiary studies. The risk of dying of people without education or with primary greater is almost three times to the one of people with studies. And he was independent of the wage:

• A poor but educated person died less quickly than her educated peers.
• A person of high spending power but with few years of study had more risk of dying than others of the same social class but more education.
• The influence of the education on the risk of dying is harder than the one of the wage.

Conclusion: the degree of education reached in the childhood and youth determines part of the risk of dying of the person between the 25 and 65 years. It is to say: the people with smaller educative level have more risk of dying; the people with primary incomplete duplicate the infarct incidence and have 2.5 times more risk of dying by an infarct; the people who do not finish the secondary one triple the risk of having hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, coronary disease, and attacks cerebral; the tumors are more frequent and lethal in people with poor schooling that in those who finished the secondary one; the tertiary title adds ten years of life expectancy; if the mother made the secondary loss to half infantile and maternal mortality.

Regazzoni tells that in Argentina they made three studies that we showed the following thing:

• The provinces with smaller proportion of their secondary population with incomplete, independently have more infantile mortality of the GIP per capita.
• The effects of the education stay until in patients of more than 80 years. The people who received more years of education arrive at the old age with better functional capacity, autoválidos and with smaller degree of cognitivo deterioration
• In patients with cerebral attack, those that went less to the school have more risk of dying than those that reached to study in the university.

“The effects of the education in the health are an enigma. Most of the deaths it is by cardiac causes and the education modifies deeply to the brain during the childhood,” says Regazzoni. “The self-esteem, the depression and stress are some elements that could explain the beneficial effects that have in the health the operated cerebral modifications with education.”