Socioeconomic Disadvantages Linked to Increased Long-Term Heart Attack Effects, Mortality

Medicine & Technology May 20, 2021

According to researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, patients that experienced heart attacks at a young age have an increased tendency of suffering from long-term post-heart-attack if they live in disadvantaged neighborhoods and contributing socioeconomic factors.

A Global Study Shows That Millennials Have the Lowest Faith in Democracy

Oct 20, 2020

Younger people have shown lower faith in a democracy compared to any other age group - with millennials all over the world more disillusioned than their predecessors at the same stage in life.

Study Shows How the Brain Works While Speaking To Someone of a Different Social Class

Oct 05, 2020

The human brain responds in various ways whenever we talk to someone of a different socioeconomic background from our own, compared to when we speak to someone we perceive to be from a similar background, according to a new study.

Families With Higher Socioeconomic Position is Associated to Greater Exposure to Several Environmental Chemical Contaminants

May 13, 2019

Similarly, children from families with a higher social position had a higher risk of exposure to organochlorine compounds per – and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), mercury, arsenic, and bisphenol A

Poorer Children Have Smaller Brains Researchers Say

Mar 31, 2015

Children with richer parents have larger brains compared to children with poorer parents, according to a new study. The differences in the brain were most marked in the areas that control language, reading, decision making and memory, the study found.