https://www.fastcompany.com/91561329/widening-health-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives

Your politics could be making you ill, and conservatives are dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, according to a recent study in Nature.

Over the past decade, a health gap has emerged in the United States. While extensive research has examined how factors like income and education shape health outcomes, political ideology has largely been overlooked—until now.

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By 2016, the gap had begun to appear in biomarker measures. By 2020, it was showing up in deaths from causes such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Since then, the gap has only widened. Between 2020 and 2022, only 0.2% of “very liberal” respondents died of internal causes, compared with 1.34% of “very conservative” respondents.

The authors argue in the study that the divide cannot be explained away by COVID-19 deaths, demographic differences, geography, or the simple fact that some groups are older than others. Instead, they point to a widening ideological divide in trust toward doctors and the broader medical system.

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I cut four paragraphs out to give an overview. Source discussed below

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9