Why do intelligent people live longer?

Ian Deary
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Ian Deary: Ian Deary is director of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK. i.deary@ed.ac.uk

Nature, 2008, vol. 456, issue 7219, 175-176

Abstract: We must discover why cognitive differences are related to morbidity and mortality, argues Ian Deary, in order to help tackle health inequalities.

Date: 2008
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