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Lower Educational Attainment And Income, Early Trauma Can Increase Health Risks (scienceblog.com)

 

Lower educational attainment and income, and a higher incidence of trauma in childhood due to economic and social factors, can lead to greater health risks, according to researchers in the Office of Public Health Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa‘s Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.

Co-authors Catherine Pirkle, an assistant professor of health policy, and Yan Yan Wu, an assistant professor of epidemiology, looked at health data of more than 2,000 people in Albania, Brazil, Colombia and Canada. Their findings are featured in the BMJ Open medical research journal.

Pirkle and Wu used a model to identify the joint effects of multiple risk factors for a cluster of disorders called metabolic syndrome (MetS). These factors include increased blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels, which collectively put a person at greater risk for heart disease, diabetes and stroke. About 34 percent of the U.S. adult population suffers from MetS.

Previous studies have examined clinical or genetic risk factors for MetS, but the UH researchers’ findings show that social and behavioral risk factors may additionally make certain groups more vulnerable to MetS than others.

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