login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Popular Kids at School Better Health in Adulthood
The unusually wide and long-term study covers 14,000 children born in 1953, who were questioned in 1966 when they were 12 or 13 years old and whose health was tracked up to 2003.
The children's place in the social hierarchy was determined by asking them who they most preferred to work with at school.
To assess their health in later life, the study delved into a national databank for hospital admissions.
Individuals who had been marginalised at school were nine times likelier to develop heart disease and four times likelier to require hospital care for diabetes, which are lifestyle-related disorders.
They were also twice at risk of developing mental ill health and behavioural problems, including self harm and attempted suicide, compared with "top dog" former classmates.
The pattern was the same for both men and women, although the types of ill health they developed were different.
Importantly, the results cannot be explained by the occupation, income or education of the child's family, according to the paper, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Peer status at school could play a large and badly overlooked impact on health in later life, suggested Ylva Almquist of Stockholm University's Centre for Health Equity Studies.
Source-AFP
RAS
|
|
More News on: Development Milestone, Height and Weight-Kids
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
| News Categories: |
| » | Cardio-Pulmonary Function can be a Strong Indicator for Survival Chances of Breast Cancer Patients |
| » | Post Surgery Will the Tumour Return? New Breast Cancer Test to Predict Exactly |
| » | Scientists Develop Compound That Triggers Cancer Cell Death |
| » | Iraqi National Hopes to Find Affordable Treatment for His Cancer in India |
| » | New Technique can Help Doctors Detect Pancreatic Cancer |
| More Cancer News | |
|
