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Education and good health are inextricably linked. To explore this association further, investigators in Wales examined the impact of childhood academic performance on risk for injuries during adolescence. The researchers linked data on more than 172,000 Welsh children registered with a general practitioner (from the Wales Electronic Cohort for Children) with educational records — including standardized assessments of achievement in language and math at ages 7 to 8 years and 10 to 11 years — as well as general-practitioner records and hospital-admissions and mortality data. A subset of students completed a health behavior survey between ages 11 and 16 years.
Analyses adjusted for free school meal eligibility showed that both boys and girls w…