Who is healthier liberals or conservatives

Those could go beyond health habits to include "how you look at life, how you react to adversity," he says. One researcher not involved in the new study is unconvinced.

The death differences found are "very small" and the idea that self-reported health is not a good predictor of death is "very inconsistent" with other research, says Subu V.

Subramanian , a professor of population health and geography at Harvard. Smoking is a major cause of illness and death. In general, he says, Republicans and conservatives tend to be more religious and "more tied into social networks and organizations.

John Feehery, a former House Republican aide who is president of Quinn Gillespie Communications, knocks down the idea that liberals outlive conservatives. He also said it would have been useful to have a three-by-three table mapping out the overlap between affiliation and ideology. For example, how many Democrats were actually conservative, how many Republicans were moderates, how many Independents were liberal, etc.

Subramanian also argued that self-reported health had been shown in the research to be linked to death rates. But political affiliation and ideology could be markers for other underlying factors that might actually influence health, and it will take much more detailed data to figure out what those factors may be. Follow aminawrite on Twitter for more science news.

CDC shifts pandemic goals away from reaching herd immunity. This scientist is finding out. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Rather, our measurable personality traits seem to be, in some way, pulling us to the left or right. A second study tested whether conservatives were more likely to take an opportunity to engage in physical activity. The researchers had participants fill out some surveys, and then asked each individual to take a piece of paper up one floor to another experimenter.

Of course, other factors might explain why this was the case. In a third study, the researchers primed cigarette smokers with words conceptually related to conservative or liberal political ideology — e.

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