A study over 50 years has revealed that popular school children are less likely to suffer conditions such as heart disease and diabetes than their unpopular counterparts. Credit: iStockphotoFrom Cosmos:
PARIS: Children who are the most popular and powerful at school also enjoy better health in adult life compared to counterparts at the bottom end of the pecking order, say Swedish scientists.
The long-term study covers 14,000 children born in 1953, who were questioned in 1966 when they were 12 or 13 years old and whose health was tracked up to 2003.
The children's place in the social hierarchy was determined by asking them who they most preferred to work with at school.
To assess their health in later life, the study delved into a national databank for hospital admissions.
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