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According to a news release, a study reviewing data from nearly 3,000 counties in the United States has found that living in a community with easy access to grocery stores and affordable, healthy food is associated with lower heart failure death rates, according to new research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart …
Poverty, combined with other types of adversity in early childhood, is associated with greater chances of premature death in adulthood, compared to other adverse childhood experiences, according to a study of more than 46,000 people by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Compared to children who did not experience early life adversity, childhood poverty …
Life expectancy data from 2019 showed a national average of 78.8 years. Hawaii had the highest life expectancy, at 80.9, and Mississippi had the lowest at 74.4. Most of the states with lower life expectancies were located in the South and had higher poverty rates. Highest female life expectancy was in Hawaii at 83.9 years, …
According to recent research, poverty may be affecting children’s brains. Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty of past research has looked into the physical effects of childhood poverty, or documented mental health disparities between socioeconomic classes. But Deanna Barch, chair and professor in the …
Subjectively, getting more sleep seems to provide big benefits: Many people find it gives them increased energy, emotional control, and an improved sense of well-being. But a new study co-authored by MIT economists complicates this picture, suggesting that more sleep, by itself, isn’t necessarily sufficient to bring about those kinds of appealing improvements. The study …
More than a third of adults in the United States have obesity, and people who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods with lower-income and less-educated populations have a higher risk of obesity. This includes older adult populations, which continue to grow and increase the demand for health care. In fact, Americans born between 1946 and 1962 …
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It’s been known for some time that poverty is associated with worse cancer outcomes, including a higher risk of dying from cancer. These and other cancer disparities are thought to be caused by many different factors. A new study by NCI researchers and their colleagues delves more deeply into the links between poverty and cancer …
The current case of palpable poverty: a high percentage of Americans are on the brink of financial disaster with 77% low to moderate income households dipping below the asset poverty threshold according to a recent study conducted by Oregon State University. This means that in the event of job loss or income loss, such as …
Many Americans are just barely making it pay cheque to pay cheque, they simply don’t earn enough money to build savings, and can’t afford to purchase healthier food choices as well as better education, healthcare and child care. Oregon State University has found definite statistical truth to these sentiments and has concluded that over 63% …