Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: First Report

The Brabant Data Set, now freely accessible, contains information on a sample cohort of 3,000 individuals born around 1940 from surveys in 1952, 1983 and 1993, as well as on deaths between 1994 and 2009. In line with numerous epidemiological studies we find that among the early variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinant of adult mortality is intelligence. Preliminary attempts to trace this effect in the later surveys are not successful.