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: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday May 11 2015, @06:36AM
They may also be failing to note relative exposure -- kids in large public schools are exposed a helluva lot more than kids attending small or private schools. More poor kids attend large public schools, ergo more poor kids are routinely exposed to cold virus.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.