Being a famous singer may sound glamorous, but a new study suggests it also comes with a considerable occupational hazard: an early death. According to a new study, famous singers.
Being a famous singer may sound glamorous, but a new study suggests it also comes with a considerable occupational hazard: an early death. According to a new study, famous singers die roughly four years younger than their less-famous musical counterparts. BMJ Group reports the study tracked 648 singers across the US, UK, and Europe—half household names, half relative unknowns—and found the pattern doesn’t line up with background differences or with the notion that the singers were already unhealthy before finding fame. Instead, the data points toward something more unsettling. « An elevated risk emerges specifically after achieving fame, which highlights fame as a potential temporal turning point for health risks including mortality », according to the study.
