Eating Behaviors, 2021 The stereotype that eating disorders (ED) primarily present among individuals of higher socioeconomic status (SES) has long persisted in popular and professional perception. This belief has likely contributed to disparities in ED identification and treatment, particularly among those of lower SES backgrounds.
Kathryn M. Huryk +2 more
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Nicotinamide’s Ups and Downs: Consequences for Fertility, Development, Longevity and Diseases of Poverty and Affluence [PDF]
International Journal of Tryptophan Research, 2018 Aims and Scope: To further explore the role of dietary nicotinamide in both brain development and diseases, particularly those of ageing. Articles cover neurodegenerative disease and cancer.
Adrian Williams, Lisa J. Hill
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Non-alcoholic and alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - two Diseases of Affluence associated with the Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: the FIN-D2D Survey [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2010 Background Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is known to be associated with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and abnormal glucose tolerance. Whether alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) is associated with similar metabolic abnormalities has not been
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Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej, 2014 In developed countries, we can observe an increasing number of people with obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension and arteriosclerosis.
Ewa Grochowska, Robert Jarzyna
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Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China. [PDF]
Economics & Human Biology, 2009 We quantify, track and explain the distribution of overweight and of hypertension across Chinese provinces differentiated by their degree of urbanicity over the period 1991-2004. We construct an index of urbanicity from longitudinal data on community characteristics from the China Health and Nutrition Survey and compute, for the first time, a rank ...
E. van de Poel +2 more
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Multiple Sclerosis: A Disease of Affluence?
Neuroepidemiology, 2012 <b><i>Background:</i></b> Multiple sclerosis is rare in tropical areas, but quite common in developed countries. Hence, latitude has been accepted as a causal factor for prevalence of multiple sclerosis. However, developed countries have also strong economic power, which may be measured by real gross domestic product per capita.
Bernhard Buchter +2 more
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Are the Rich More Likely to Have Diseases of Affluence?
Iryo To Shakai, 2012 Yoshiharu Fukuda
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Effect of Community Affluence on the Association Between Individual Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, Colorado, 2007–2008 [PDF]
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2012 We assessed the hypothesis that community affluence modifies the association between individual socioeconomic status (SES) and 6 cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors: diabetes, hypertension, physical inactivity, obesity, smoking, and poor nutrition.
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Incidence rate of infective endocarditis by socioeconomic position: a Danish nationwide cohort study (2000–2022)Research in context [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. EuropeSummary: Background: People with lower socioeconomic positions have a higher risk of cardiac and infectious diseases than those with higher socioeconomic positions.
Søren K. Martiny +5 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in non-communicable diseases prevalence in India: disparities between self-reported diagnoses and standardized measures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundWhether non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are diseases of poverty or affluence in low-and-middle income countries has been vigorously debated.
Sukumar Vellakkal +6 more
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