Democrats die less than Republicans

Politics can have a major impact on people’s health, for better or worse. Voting for one candidate or another can affect the mortality of a territory caused by diseases such as cardiovascular diseases or cancer. Now seen by a new study published in the British Medical Journal that confirms how closely connected politics and health outcomes have grown over time. A team of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (USA) examined the death rates and the results of federal and state elections for all counties in the US from 2001 to 2019. And their results showed a surprising ‘mortality gap’, that is,… See More