https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220193449.htm > Now, a multi-institution study led by the Yale School of Medicine and University of Alabama-Birmingham has attempted to tease out the relative impact of two variables most often linked to life expectancy -- race and education -- by combing through data about 5,114 black and white individuals in four U.S. cities. > The lives and deaths among this group of people -- who were recruited for a longevity study approximately 30 years ago, when they were in their early 20s, and are now in their mid-50s -- shows that the level of education, and not race, is the best predictor of who will live the longest, researchers report Feb. 20 in the American Journal of Public Health. The individuals were part of the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.