2024-04-13 17:45:55
An analysis showed that those with shorter so-called ‘bag straps’ had a higher mortality rate than those with a higher level of education.
According to Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun on the 12th, Japan’s National Cancer Center compiled estimates of mortality rates by Japanese people’s highest educational attainment and cause of death, and found that the lower the highest educational attainment, the higher the mortality rate.
Compared to the group with a high level of education (college to graduate school graduates), those with a low level of education (elementary school and middle school graduates) had a mortality rate that was 1.36 times higher for men and 1.46 times higher for women. The cause of death by disease, which showed significant differences according to education level, was ‘cerebrovascular disease’ such as cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage, ‘lung cancer’, ‘ischemic heart disease’ such as myocardial infarction, and ‘stomach cancer’ for both men and women.
Japan’s National Cancer Center analyzed that lifestyle habits such as smoking and excessive salt intake are related to education level, resulting in differences in mortality rates.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, people with a low level of education had a high smoking rate and a low number of cancer screenings. Additionally, people with lower income levels were less likely to have a balanced diet.
On the other hand, there were diseases with a higher mortality rate in those with a high level of education. A representative example is breast cancer in women. Another study by the National Cancer Center showed that the risk of developing breast cancer was higher when women had no childbirth experience, had fewer births, or had a late first birth.
The National Cancer Center pointed out, “It is possible that women with a higher level of education have more risk factors for developing breast cancer, leading to a higher mortality rate.” The mortality rate due to uterine cancer with the same cause also showed the same trend.
Comparing this with other countries, the difference in mortality rates according to education level in Australia was 2.2 times higher for men and 1.64 times higher for women than in Japan.
When limited to the death rate due to cancer, in Japan the rate was 1.10 times for both men and women, but in the United States it was 2.29 times.
Regarding this difference, Japan’s National Cancer Center said, “It is possible that the relatively high level of hygiene of water and food ingredients and the fact that anyone can receive appropriate medical services due to the universal health insurance system contribute (to the relatively low difference in mortality rates). “There is this,” he analyzed.
This survey analyzed the mortality rate by cause of death among those aged 30 to 79 obtained from population survey data from October 2010 to September 2015.
Park Hae-sik, Donga.com reporter [email protected]
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