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Health may be wealth, but wealth contributes not a little to maintaining one's health after all. A new UK study has confirmed such a common sense perception.//

Some could philosophically muse about flesh being heir to a thousand natural shocks, in general, implying age catches up with us all.

But the UK researchers point to a striking discrimination in the scheme of things - a lifetime on a low wage physically ages a person eight years earlier than high earners.

The health gap between the lowest and highest paid occupational groups widens in retirement, they note.

In a research focussed on civil servants, a team from the University College of London followed more than 10,000 of them civil servants aged 35 to 55, over a period of 20 years.

Physical health declined with age in all groups but most rapidly among those in the lowest occupational grades, the British Medical Journal reported.

The employees, working in 20 different departments and from all occupational grades, were surveyed five times between 1985 and 2004.

At retirement, despite leaving the civil service, the health gap not only continued but widened.

Retirement does not level the playing field. These health inequalities actually increase.

For example, the average physical health of a 70-year-old high earner was similar to the physical health of a low earner around eight years younger.

In mid-life, this gap was only 4.5 years.

Among high earners, retirement appeared to improve their mental health and wellbeing. But no similar improvement was seen in the lower occupational groups.

The researchers concede that though studied mainly white collar office workers, the findings would be the same across other occupations.

Currently, people reaching state pension age in the UK have, on average, a life expectancy of a further 20 years for women and around 10 years for men.

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