Men in the most deprived areas died 11 years earlier than those in the most affluent, with the age gap 7.5 years for women, said the report.
Brandt's properties include a $2 million, 13,600-square-foot mansion in a Dallas suburb that Forbes once ranked as America's most affluent, with a landscaped pool and waterfall and a wood-paneled home theater.
The estimated risk for the most deprived quintile category relative to the most affluent (0.76 with 95% confidence interval 0.61 0.95) was consistent with the results reported in a previous matched analysis of UKCCS data (Law et al, 2003), and compatible with the rate ratios reported here.
Many now live in some of the city's most affluent neighborhoods, with homes worth over $1 million.
Here is a quick way to put the recent flurry of tax numbers into perspective: Newt Gingrich and President Obama each pay a federal tax rate typical of most affluent Americans, with rates well above those of many middle-class households.
The maximum will be $238.40 a month for the most affluent, individuals with annual incomes exceeding $205,000 and each member of a couple reporting combined income of more than $410,000.
In Frogner, one of Oslo's most affluent neighborhoods with a housing stock of 19th-century buildings, the average price per square meter for new apartments is around 55,000 kroner a square meter ($855 a square foot), said Mr. Lande, whose office is located there.
Donald B. Marron Jr., the director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, said the burden of this tax would be borne by the most affluent taxpayers, with about 85 percent of the revenue coming from 1 percent of taxpayers.
High stock prices, rising home values and surging corporate profits have buoyed the recovery-era incomes of the most affluent Americans, with the incomes of the rest still weighed down by high unemployment and stagnant wages for many blue- and white-collar workers.
It is true, he writes, that Internet use among the poorest families -- those with annual incomes of less than $15,000 -- grew by an average of 25percentt from December 1998 to September 2001, while the rate among the most affluent families, with annual incomes of more than $75,000, increased 11percentt annually.
Meanwhile, men in Wokingham can expect to live to 69.9 years in very good or good health, rising to 70 years for women in Richmond-upon-Thames. Richmond is one of London's most affluent boroughs, with a population of 187,000, an unemployment rate of 3%, and an average income of about £41,600.
