Poverty

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.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, inequities regarding kidney disease treatment have worsened in low- and lower-middle income countries, according to data published in Seminar Nephrology.

A county’s poverty rate appeared significantly associated with the likelihood it would be home to at least one registered multiple myeloma clinical trial site, according to study results.

Childhood poverty was associated with increases in externalizing problems, but not internalizing, over time in early adolescence, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Children who experienced adversity from age 0 to 15 years were at elevated risk for developing CVD in young adulthood compared with those who did not, researchers reported in the European Heart Journal.

Poverty is associated with an increased likelihood that a young child hospitalized for maltreatment would be reported to Child Protective Services, or CPS, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

Household income less than 150% of the federal poverty level was linked to a greater risk for HF mortality, according to study findings presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Unemployment and poverty can be significant drivers of poor outcomes in conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, according to a keynote lecture at ACR Convergence 2021.

Neighborhood desegregation in the U.S. will solve racial disparities in medicine, including the rapid progression of chronic kidney disease to end-stage renal disease in Black patients, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

The presence of pain in children with cerebral palsy can make motor skill activities even more difficult, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.