Reportage intéressant! On remarque assez rapidement les cheveux de plus en plus gris d'Obama et de certains de ces prédécesseurs, mais généralement l'espérance de vie des anciens présidents est appréciable.
"Despite a common assumption that life in the Oval Office prematurely ages its occupants and speculation that it may even shorten life spans, a new statistical analysis has found that most presidents have actually lived longer than other American men their age. And all living presidents have either already surpassed the average expected life span or are likely to do so.
S. Jay Olshansky, an expert on aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago, gathered the evidence and concluded that 23 of the 34 presidents who died of natural causes “lived beyond the average life expectancy for men of the same age when they were inaugurated.”
“We don’t die of gray hair and wrinkled skin,” said Dr. Olshansky, whose findings will be published on Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Olshansky first became intrigued by presidential longevity when he heard chatter in the news media about the signs, around Mr. Obama’s 50th birthday celebration in August, that the president was aging quickly. Commentators dwelled on the gray hair above his temples, the deepening creases around his mouth and the bags under his eyes that seemed to betray a weariness in one of the most stressful jobs on earth. There was even speculation that presidents age two years for every one they spend in the White House.
But after 25 years of research on life expectancy, Dr. Olshansky was skeptical that the job was taking years off of presidents’ lives. After all, presidents in past eras had survived the perilous early years in times when many children were carried off by fevers and other ailments before the advent of antibiotics. Also, most presidents have been college-educated, wealthy and provided with the best medical care — advantages that would seemingly have improved their odds."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/health/american-presidents-outlive-other-men-their-age-study-finds.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha24
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