Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is highly predictive of a wide range of life outcomes, ranging from cognitive ability and academic achievement to physical and mental health. Recent work investigating more specific correlates of SES has identified SES disparities in executive function performance and measures of prefrontal cortical function, but little is known about the structural correlat...

Socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to functioning across a variety of neurocognitive domains including language, memory, executive functioning, and social-emotional processing. We review these findings and discuss the ways in which socioeconomic context may shape neural processes such that these skills are supported by different neurobiological pathways in children from lower versus hig...

Using the 1957-2004 data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we apply structural equation modeling to examine gender-specific effects of family socioeconomic status (SES) at age 18 on body weight at age 65. We further explore SES and health behaviors over the life course as mechanisms linking family background and later-life body weight. We find that early-life socioeconomic disadvantage is ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Population groups with a lower socioeconomic status (SES) have a greater risk of disease and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between SES and mortality in the metropolitan area of Rome during the six year period 1990-1995, and to examine variations in mortality differentials between 1990-92 and 1993-95. DESIGN Rome has a population of approximat...

OBJECTIVE We sought to identify pathways connecting lifecourse socioeconomic status (SES) with chronic, low-grade inflammation, focusing on the explanatory roles of self-control, abdominal adiposity, and health practices. METHODS Participants were 360 adults aged 15-55 who were free of chronic medical conditions. They were roughly equally divided between low and high current SES, with each gr...

BACKGROUND Birthweight and gestational age are associated with socioeconomic deprivation, but the evidence in relation to temporal changes in these associations is sparse. We investigated changes in the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and birthweight and gestational age in Newcastle upon Tyne, North of England, during 1961-2000. METHODS We used population-based data from hospi...

BACKGROUND Bullying and victimization are widespread phenomena in childhood and can have a serious impact on well-being. Children from families with a low socioeconomic background have an increased risk of this behaviour, but it is unknown whether socioeconomic status (SES) of school neighbourhoods is also related to bullying behaviour. Furthermore, as previous bullying research mainly focused ...

IMPORTANCE Disparities in operative mortality due to socioeconomic status (SES) have been consistently demonstrated, but the mechanisms underlying this disparity are not well understood. OBJECTIVE To determine whether variations in failure to rescue (FTR) contribute to socioeconomic disparities in mortality after major cancer surgery. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We performed a retrosp...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and dietary sodium intake, and to identify if the major dietary sources of sodium differ by socioeconomic group in a nationally representative sample of Australian children. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING 2007 Australian National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey. PARTICIPANTS A total of 4487 ch...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and inflammatory markers using two different European population samples. METHODS We used data from the CoLaus (N=6412, Lausanne, Switzerland) and EPIPorto (N=1205, Porto, Portugal) studies. Education and occupational position were used as indicators of socioeconomic status (SES). High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CR...