Intelligence comes second only to smoking as a predictor of heart disease, scientists said on Wednesday, suggesting public health campaigns may need to be designed for people with lower IQs if they are to work.
Research by Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) found that lower intelligence quotient (IQ) scores were associated with higher rates of heart disease and death, and were more important indicators than any other risk factors except smoking.
That's right. If you ain't smarter than a fifth grader? You maybe leaving this world sooner than later. According to this assembled mass of British science and medicine, the less smart you are (dumber) the more at risk you are to die from heart disease or other maladies related to poor decision making.
I have assumed as much for many years and now we have the science to prove it. Some people are so stupid they will die from it.
Isn't this report rather... politically incorrect?
ReplyDeleteThen again.. Emmanuel should relate to it pretty well.
Ha! The media's changing the theme from low intelligence to being bored!
ReplyDeleteToo funny... the PC stuff must have caught up with them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_bored_to_death
Yeah, I saw that too. Then
ReplyDeleteI figured out that I must have made it past the critical stages of boredom by now. LOL!!!!