Poverty
Study: One in three adolescents experience ‘period poverty’
ORLANDO — More than one in three adolescents experience period poverty — or difficulty accessing menstrual products — according to a study presented at the AAP National Convention & Exhibition.
Childhood vaccine coverage lower among uninsured, children living below poverty level
Children born from 2011 to 2020 who were uninsured or living below the federal poverty level had lower vaccination coverage than insured children or those living at or above the federal poverty level, according to a CDC press release.
Higher neighborhood poverty level associated with greater stroke incidence
DENVER — Poorer neighborhood socioeconomic status was associated with greater stroke incidence, according to a poster at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.
Top in cardiology: CVD mortality rate stalls; depression is a greater risk factor in women
Recent study results showed that despite improved hypertension control, there has been little decline in CVD deaths among patients with hypertension since the first decade of the 2000s.
For people living in extreme poverty, heart disease risk factors more common than thought
People living in extreme poverty had a higher prevalence of heart disease risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, smoking, obesity and dyslipidemia than previously thought, according to an analysis of people from 78 countries.
Counties with large Black population, poverty rate have less access to COVID-19 treatments
Access to COVID-19 therapeutic drugs in U.S. counties decreased if the county had an increased population of Black individuals, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.
Consistent poverty linked to higher mortality rates
Poverty should be considered a major risk factor for death in the United States, according to the results of research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Healio Minute Podcast, Leukemia Edition: Top Headlines - Week of May 1, 2023
In this edition, immunotherapy improves survival rates of infants with leukemia; extreme poverty linked to higher risk for relapse among children with ALL; FDA approves allogeneic cell therapy and more.
Extreme poverty linked to nearly twofold higher risk for relapse among children with ALL
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia receiving maintenance therapy who lived in extreme poverty had nearly double the risk for relapse compared with children who did not live in extreme poverty, according to data published in Blood.
Higher poverty linked to lower rates for surgical resection in colorectal liver metastasis
Patients in U.S. counties with higher poverty were less likely to undergo liver metastasectomy for colorectal liver metastasis, suggesting that access to surgery for complex gastrointestinal cancers may be affected by social determinants.