AFP: To live longer, go back to school: study

AFP: To live longer, go back to school: study: "To live longer, go back to school: study
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — If you have been contemplating going back to school to get a degree, this might convince you: a study by the Harvard School of Medicine has shown people with a better education live longer.
'Between the 1980s and 2000, life expectancy increases occurred nearly exclusively among high-education groups,' the study said.
While life expectancy for people with a high school degree or less did not change between 1990 and 2000, the better-educated gained more than 1.5 years over the same period, the study showed.
'A 25-year-old with a high school degree in 1990 could expect to live another 50 years, or for about 75 years,' lead author Ellen Meara told AFP."/.../