Low Socioeconomic Status May Lead To Mental Illness
Researchers are of the low social and economic standing may lead to more cases of mental illnesses like depression,// and bipolar disease. The study, which examined a database of 34000 patients who have been detected with mental illness leading to hospitalization, was published in the current issue of American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. The study results show that income education an...Study Finds Low Socio-Economic Status Linked to Poor Dental Health
An article appearing in the American Journal of Public Health says that low income groups and those with little education are more prone to suffer from severe dental diseases//. The study arrived at these conclusions after analyzing data from 15,000 people residing in North Carolina, Mississippi, Minnesota and Maryland. The researchers say that a person's income was intimately tied to t...Prostate Cancer Outcomes Determined By Socioeconomic Status
More than the available treatment methods, it is the socioeconomic status of an individual that determines the prognosis of prostate cancer, according// to a new study published in the March 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study found that education, community poverty, and income level played an equally important role in determining t...Hormone Levels Increase Due To Socioeconomic Stress
Executives who are stressed and belong to lower socioeconomic status have a higher level of stress hormones in their body irrespective of the formula for success//. As per the newest issue of Psycosomatic Medicine, this increased level is irrespective of race, age, sex or BMI. ‘The study does not have to do with poverty, per se,’ said lead author Sheldon Cohen, Ph.D., a psychiatry profe...Socioeconomic Status Plays A Role In Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
A group of autoimmune diseases, named Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), causes chronic inflammation of the joints, which inversely affect health-related quality of life// , during adulthood. Socioeconomic status suggests patient prognosis in adults – study finds. But nothing regarding children was found. Arthritis Care & Research journal published a study in the June 2006 issue, w...