Glasgow: The city where they die young | UK news | The Guardian →
What they call the “Glasgow effect” has puzzled health professionals for years. Glaswegians die earlier, whether it be from heart disease, abuse of alcohol or drugs, or cancer, than anywhere else in the UK. Yet nobody knows why. Liverpool and Manchester have near identical areas with the same social problems: a history of industrial decline, engrained deprivation, and high, long-term unemployment, plus a history of heavy drinking, smoking, poor diet, reliance on benefits, and damp housing. But there are 30% more premature deaths in Glasgow, compared with these northern English cities. And now it seems Glasgow’s adult life expectancy rate is on a par with that of the Palestinian territories and Albania. David Walsh, of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, says there is no clear explanation. On average, a Glaswegian male aged 65 will die within 13 years, sooner than any other Briton – in Liverpool, for example, an average 65-year-old male will die in 15.7 years…
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