According to a story at International Business Times, growing up poor can have a range of consequences for a person’s status and future opportunities — and it can also make someone more likely to catch colds later in life, a new study shows. Writing in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, Carnegie Mellon University psychologist Sheldon Cohen and colleagues say they’ve found a connection between childhood poverty and a middle age with more sniffles, coughs and sneezes.
"We have found initial evidence for a biological explanation of the importance of childhood experiences on adult health," Cohen said in a statement. "The association we found in young and midlife adults suggests why those raised by parents of relatively low socioeconomic status may be at increased risk for disease throughout adulthood."
http://www.ibtimes.com/poverty-childhood-makes-you-more-susceptible-colds-later-life-study-1452070
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:53AM
Does it have to be a cold or will a yeast infection work?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @04:20AM
Hipsters read "International Business Times" and IBTimes doesn't mention anything about yeast infections. So I guess it won't work.