Professor of Epidemiology and Health at London University College Michael Mamot discovered a clear relationship between the social status of people and the duration of their lives.

He studied the statistics of several countries over the past three decades, and also conducted his own medical research.

It was found out that the interrelation of the position and health of a person, as well as the duration of his life, varies from country to country and from one period of time to another, but it is always traced.

Ordinary clerks everywhere live, on average, less than high-ranking employees of companies, doctors of sciences - longer than masters and so on.

And even among ordinary clerks or messengers, on average, there was an ischemic heart disease more often than their superiors.

One of the reasons for this difference is obvious - the higher the person is on the social ladder, the better he has access to modern medical services and has more money to pay for the work of doctors.

However, it is interesting that the US with a gross national product per person of approximately 34 thousand dollars has an average life expectancy of people (76.9 years) almost the same as in Cuba (76.5 years) with its gross domestic product of only 5.2 thousand Dollars per person.

One explanation is a general factor that depends only on the step taken on the career ladder. The researcher called him "fight or fall".

This psychological stress caused by the need to strive upward, "meet", "justify" and directly affects the hormonal balance, which, in turn, affects health.

The quiet bosses, who have already achieved high position and are not in a hurry, this stress is falling, while in the lower level of the firms, the working morning begins with the release of cortisol into the blood, which in particular affects the risk of heart disease medicus. En.

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