LGBTQ+ people have a 15 percent higher risk of late-life depression, dementia, and stroke than cisgender and straight individuals. Much of this can be attributed to the increased stress that LGBTQ+ people experience.

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#LGBTQ+ #MentalHealth #Equality #HealthDisparities #EndStigma

American adults aged 33 to 46 have significantly worse health compared to their British peers, especially in markers of cardiovascular health and higher levels of obesity, along with greater disparities in health by socioeconomic factors

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#healthdisparities #cardiovascularhealth #obesitycrisis #socioeconomichealthgap #publichealth

A study analyzed the destinations of 385,930 COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped to Pennsylvania in the first phase of vaccine distribution (Dec. 14, 2020, to April 12, 2021) and found that white people had 81.4% more doses shipped to their neighborhoods than Black people did.

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#VaccineEquity #HealthDisparities #COVID19Vaccination #SocialJustice #PublicHealth

Life expectancy gap in U.S. widens to 20 years due to "truly alarming" health disparities, researchers say | Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA

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#LifeExpectancy #HealthDisparities #PublicHealth #SocialJustice #AmericaHealth

Long COVID associated with an increased likelihood of facing financial hardships, such as food insecurity, inability to pay bills, and the threat of losing services. Individuals in lower income groups and those without college degrees were disproportionately affected by the condition.

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#LongCOVID #FinancialHardship #FoodInsecurity #IncomeInequality #HealthDisparities

The Lancet: Deeply entrenched racial and geographic health disparities in the USA have increased over the last two decades—as life expectancy gap widens to 20 years

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#HealthDisparities #RacialEquity #PublicHealth #LifeExpectancy #HealthJustice

Top 20% of high-income, college-educated Americans have less heart disease risk than others, and this gap has widened over past two decades, even after adjusting for factors like blood pressure, cholesterol and BMI. Life expectancy for richest 1% of Americans is now 10 years higher than poorest 1%.

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#HealthDisparities #WealthAndHealth #HeartDiseaseRisk #LifeExpectancy #IncomeInequality

Men are more likely than women to get sick and die, but less likely to seek care from hypertension, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS 🏥💔 | In most countries, males were also more likely to smoke 🚬, while females were more like to be obese 🍔 and engage in unsafe sex 🚫💏.

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#HealthDisparities #MensHealth #ChronicIllness #PreventiveCare #PublicHealth

Loss of Medicaid coverage linked to higher mortality among low-income older adults 🏥💔 – The risks were particularly high among individuals with greater clinical needs and on more expensive medications. 💊📉

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#MedicaidLoss #HealthDisparities #OlderAdults #HealthcareAccess #PublicHealth

A global study finds that cardiovascular hospitalisations rise for months after tropical cyclones 🌪️, especially strokes 🧠 and heart attacks ❤️ in poorer, working-age men.

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#cardiovascularhealth #tropicalcyclones #publichealth #healthdisparities #climateimpact

Poverty may be linked to lower fertility 💔📉. Researchers have found that about half of couples on low incomes had fertility problems compared to about a third of couples on high incomes. Lifestyle factors, such as BMI, smoking, and drinking, did not fully explain this difference.

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#PovertyFertility #FertilityResearch #IncomeInequality #HealthDisparities #FamilyPlanning

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#ADHDadvocacy #ChildhoodADHD #HealthDisparities #AccessToCare #MentalAndPhysicalHealth

Childhood adversity linked to accelerated biological aging in women 🧬⏳👩.

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#ChildhoodAdversity #Epigenetics #BiologicalAging #WomensHealth #HealthDisparities

* ⚖️ Specific childhood hardship patterns are linked to faster biological aging in women, with effects varying by sex and race/ethnicity.

* 🧬 Researchers identified distinct adversity patterns, like "Financial Adversity" and "Socioeconomic Adversity," showing these specific combinations, not just a cumulative score, impact long-term health.

* ⏳ The study found women in certain adversity groups exhibited accelerated biological aging, a connection not statistically clear in men, supporting the "weathering" hypothesis of chronic stress wearing down the body.

#ChildhoodAdversity #BiologicalAging #HealthDisparities

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Researchers 🧬 find biological evidence 🧪 of the toll 💔 colorism takes on young adults 🌈.

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#colorism #biologicalimpact #socioculturalstress #youngadults #healthdisparities

• ☀️ New research published in Psychoneuroendocrinology reveals that bias against darker skin tones (colorism) directly alters the body's stress response. The study found that experiences of discrimination related to skin tone disrupt cortisol levels, leading to subsequent physical health declines in young adults.

• 🔬 A study involving 53 African American and Latino undergraduate students tracked cortisol levels over a month. Participants with darker skin reported more discrimination, which correlated with flatter diurnal cortisol slopes, indicating a disrupted stress system.

• 📉 These hormonal disruptions were linked to poorer self-reported physical health six weeks later, suggesting a pathway where colorism, as a persistent stressor, physiologically impacts the body and manifests as a decline in well-being.

#Colorism #HealthDisparities #Cortisol

Since the 2010s, American conservatives increasingly experience worse health outcomes and higher mortality than liberals. Declining trust in medical professionals appears to be the mechanism, with lower willingness to seek care, follow clinical advice and believe in medication effectiveness.

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#HealthDisparities #ConservativesVsLiberals #MedicalTrust

Research has found social inequality is linked to faster biological aging. Evidence of accelerated biological aging associated with social disadvantage is already visible in children, indicating that social inequality can shape biology from a young age.

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#BiologicalAging #SocialInequality #HealthDisparities

🤰 New Mass General Brigham study reveals adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) in Black and Latina women are linked to greater social needs, including education, transportation, and financial strain.

🏥 Researchers suggest integrating social needs assessment into postpartum care could improve long-term maternal health and reduce health disparities.

📈 The study found that the rate of APOs increased with higher burdens of social needs, particularly in educational areas.

#MaternalHealth #HealthDisparities #PregnancyOutcomes

For decades, US mortality rates have exceeded rates in peer countries and have been increasing across many causes of death, especially in young adults and people living in certain regions in the United States, such as the Deep South and Appalachia.

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