Health
Of course, it's better to be healthy and rich than sick and poor. However, a group of researchers from the University School of Medicine in Indianapolis decided to test this seemingly unquestionable one the truth.
If you want to get sick less, move to a prosperous area
The medical study involved African-Americans with diabetes living in areas where the environmental and crime situation leaves much to be desired. Moreover, the study covered a wide range of patients with this disease — both those who have recently suffered from diabetes and those who have already lost the ability to move independently due to the development of this a terrible disease.
It is not without reason that American researchers drew attention to this disease. The fact is that the vast majority of diabetics living in disadvantaged areas suffer from much more complex forms of this disease, which have already led them to partial limited movement .
This fact was initially attributed to the difficult environmental situation in the areas where most of the studied people live. However, when specific data were obtained that allowed us to talk about statistics, it turned out that even the most pessimistic researchers could not predict such a turn of events.
Research shows that poverty is deadly
According to the study's leader, Dr. Douglas Miller, the risk that a diabetic patient living in a disadvantaged area will develop one of the highest risks severe forms of this disease, which will immobilize him, are 80 times higher than that of a diabetic from a normal area. Moreover, the scientist noted that 8 out of 10 diabetics immobilized by the disease live in bad neighborhoods.
Although the results of this study were published on BMC Public Health, a popular online resource that covers all kinds of medical issues, many physicians are skeptical about Miller's findings. In fact, the reasons may be, however, that a person immobilized by the disease is simply unable to work and pay for an expensive apartment in a good area. After all, it is known that diabetes is not a cheap disease, in the fight against which every person suffering from it has to invest throughout their lives.
Dr. Miller himself is absolutely confident in his conclusions and considers the main cause of the disease to be the stress that people experience when they see the uncomfortable life in their neighborhood around them every day.