OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine if socioeconomic status could affect the likelihood of diagnosis, treatment and control of hypertension in diabetic hypertensive individuals. DESIGN Cross-sectional nationally representative study. SETTINGS Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS This paper used data from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey. The analyses were based on the responses of 339...

BACKGROUND A link between low parental socioeconomic status and mental health problems in offspring is well established in previous research. The mechanisms that explain this link are largely unknown. The present study investigated whether school performance was a mediating and/or moderating factor in the path between parental socioeconomic status and the risk of hospital admission for non-fata...

Background. Cardiovascular disease is still portrayed as a typical male disease, and men are more often submitted to invasive procedures or referred earlier. Aim. To explore sex differences in morbidity and referral patterns in cardiovascular disease in general practice, and the role of age and socioeconomic status. Method. Data were obtained from a continuous morbidity registration project in ...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic status is a powerful predictor of mortality in living populations, as status affects exposure or access to a variety of factors that impact health and survival, such as diet, healthcare, infectious disease and pollution. AIM This study examines the effect of socioeconomic status on mortality and survival in London during a period spanning the early 18th through mid-19...

BACKGROUND Several models have been proposed to explain the association between ethnicity and health. It was investigated whether the association between Roma ethnicity and health is fully mediated by socioeconomic status in Hungary. METHODS Comparative health interview surveys were performed in 2003-04 on representative samples of the Hungarian population and inhabitants of Roma settlements....

INTRODUCTION We examined health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in white and African American patients based on their own and their community's socioeconomic status. METHODS Participants were 4,565 adults recruited from 17 family physician practices in urban and rural areas of North Carolina. Education was used as a proxy for individual socioeconomic status, and the census block-group poverty...

Introduction We examined health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in white and African American patients based on their own and their community’s socioeconomic status. Methods Participants were 4,565 adults recruited from 17 family physician practices in urban and rural areas of North Carolina. Education was used as a proxy for individual socioeconomic status, and the census block-group poverty l...

PURPOSE To assess the effects of socioeconomic status on mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied a retrospective cohort of 5622 patients who presented to a hospital emergency department with an initial episode of acute myocardial infarction between April 1998 and March 2002 in the Province of Alberta, Canada. Our main outcome measure was 1-year ...