The “rich get other diseases than the poor,”
“Infectious diseases strike different in society, according to a new Swedish study presented in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Socio-economic factors seem to have a big impact.”
“Researchers looked at 29 different infectious diseases in Sweden. The researchers took information on the infected out of the national database Sminet and then examined, they were infected were born, what education they had, if they worked, and what income they had.”
“the study included a Total of almost 174 000 cases between 2005 and 2014 in the study.”
“– For example, we see that people with lower levels of education, income and the unemployed have a greater probability to suffer from serious bacterial infections such as can give blood poisoning or similar, ” says statsepidemiologen Anders Wallensten to Sveriges Radio, Ekot.”
“highly Educated and rich are affected rather more often of food – and waterborne infections, which may be because they travel more abroad.”
“Why the blood poisoning was more common among low-income people, researchers have, however, no answer to.”
“– But you can speculate if it may have to do with things like alcohol, smoking, or environmental factors like overcrowding and the like, and also the knowledge in how to protect themselves against diseases, ” says Anders Wallensten to the Echo.”
“Patients with invasive diseases, blood-borne infections, tuberculosis and antibiotic-resistant bacteria were more often unemployed, had a lower educational level and lower income.”
“the Probability that the affected by the food – and waterborne diseases, however, were lower.”
“Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases”
