BU doc is Avron Spiro co-author of VA study that links stress to mortality in men —least in white, middle-class men.

Nonetheless, this study shows that longitudinal assessments of stressful life events significantly predict mortality independent of standard risk factors and that high stressful life event levels did not convey appreciably greater risk than moderate ones. Future studies should investigate both possible nonlinear relationships between stress and health as well as potential mediating pathways https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jar/2011/896109/