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Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge and was not involved in the
research. The idea is that if the number of fat cells is capped by age 20, then
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Lab Notes : Two Americas: The Death Gap
Why are the death rates from the major causes of death falling among the
educated but rising among the less educated? Think of lower educational
attainment as a marker of social and economic class—which has become a big issue
in the presidential campaign, as Clinton grabs the votes of those lower on the
socioeconomic ladder and Obama gets the votes of the higher-ups. The have-nots
are not only poorer; they also are less likely to have health insurance or
stable employment, which means little to no preventive care, and lower health
literacy. The last factor means less likelihood of knowing when some small
symptom means big trouble, and greater difficulty navigating the medical system.
Those with less education are also more likely to smoke, be obese, get little
exercise, and suffer from high blood pressure due to the stress of
unemployment.
“Risk factors are higher in less well-educated groups, and they have less
access to preventive medicine and treatment,” says Ahmedin Jemal of the
American Cancer Society
, who led
the study.
The death gap isn’t going away. In 2005, the most recent year the researchers
analyzed, the all-cause mortality rate for those with less than a high-school
education was 3.2 times higher than that for people with even some college.
The poor will always be with us, as the saying goes, and so will inequality
in education. But other countries have socioeconomic inequality also—with no
comparable death gap, says Jemal, because they do not make access to health care
(especially non-emergency and preventive care) contingent on having health
insurance. Two Americas, indeed.
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