Early death: The price for head of govt’s seat

Washington DC: New study has linked the election to head of government to an increased risk of early death compared with runner-up candidates, reports ANI. However, a second study finds that in the UK, mortality among members of Parliament (MPs) and members of the House of Lords (Lords) was up to 37 percent lower than that of the general population over the past 65 years. In the first study,  US researchers set out to test the theory that politicians elected to head of govern-ment experience accelerated aging and premature death due to stress of leadership and political life. They compared survival of 279 nationally elected leaders from 17 countries with 261 unelected candidates who never served in office, from 1722 to 2015.