Many researchers studied the relation between socioeconomic variations (education, income, occupation, age, etc.) and cardiovascular disease risk. However, none of these studies came to a statistical proof that higher level of education can prevent cardiovascular disease risk. A study titled “Socioeconomic Status and Health” by Marilyn A. Wnkleby, PhD, Danus E. Jatulis, MS, Erica Frank, MD, MPH,and Stephen P. Fortmann, MD (June 1992, Published Online: October 07, 2011.) concluded that past studies suggested that higher education may improve health by conferring economic advantages, but our low correlation coefficients between education and income, as well as the lack of significant income effects on risk factors, argue against this hypothesis.
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One hypothesis we find most plausible is that education may protect against disease by influencing life-style behaviors, problem-solving abilities, and values.If economics or time dictate that a single parameter of SES be chosen and if the research hypothesis does not dictate otherwise, higher education may be the best SES predictor of good health. Another study titled “Attained Educational Level and Incident Atherothrombotic Events in Low- and Middle-Income (LMICs) Compared With High-Income Countries (HICs) ” by Abhinav Goyal, Deepak L. Bhatt, P. Gabriel Steg, Bernard J. Gersh, Mark J. Alberts, E. Magnus Ohman, Ramón Corbalán, Kim A. Eagle, Efrain Gaxiola, Runlin Gao, Shinya Goto, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Robert M. Califf, Sidney C. Smith, Peter W.F. Wilson, (published September 20, 2010) concluded that, the prevalence of baseline cardiovascular disease decreased across AEL groups of men and women in HICs, but tended to increase across AEL groups of men and women in
One hypothesis we find most plausible is that education may protect against disease by influencing life-style behaviors, problem-solving abilities, and values.If economics or time dictate that a single parameter of SES be chosen and if the research hypothesis does not dictate otherwise, higher education may be the best SES predictor of good health. Another study titled “Attained Educational Level and Incident Atherothrombotic Events in Low- and Middle-Income (LMICs) Compared With High-Income Countries (HICs) ” by Abhinav Goyal, Deepak L. Bhatt, P. Gabriel Steg, Bernard J. Gersh, Mark J. Alberts, E. Magnus Ohman, Ramón Corbalán, Kim A. Eagle, Efrain Gaxiola, Runlin Gao, Shinya Goto, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Robert M. Califf, Sidney C. Smith, Peter W.F. Wilson, (published September 20, 2010) concluded that, the prevalence of baseline cardiovascular disease decreased across AEL groups of men and women in HICs, but tended to increase across AEL groups of men and women in