Rich people are genetically at greater risk of cancer than the poor, a new study has found. This research conducted at the University of Helsinki in Finland examined the relationship between socioeconomic status and a number of different diseases.
People who are privileged to enjoy a higher social status are at the same time at increased genetic risk for breast cancer, prostate cancer and other types of this disease. On the other hand, those who are less wealthy are genetically more susceptible to diabetes, arthritis, depression and lung cancer, the researchers said.
The leader of the study, doctor Fiona Hagenbeek, of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), said that the initial results could lead to finding other data to measure the risk of diseases based on genetics.
"In the future, breast cancer screening protocols may be adjusted so that affluent, highly educated women with breast cancer are screened earlier and more frequently than other categories of women," she said.
This study has been announced as the first that has sought the connection with the social status of patients and 19 different types of diseases. "Most disease prediction models relate to demographic-based information, such as gender and biological age, recognizing that disease rates differ between men and women," the doctor said.
The fact that good professions and educated people are more exposed to stress, anxiety, depression compared to people who have a job that only has physical fatigue, the whole "mental" load translates into more chances of illness for this social category.
The researchers noted that further work can be done to fully understand the links between specific occupations and the risk of various diseases.
"Our study focused only on individuals of European descent, and it will also be important in the future to see if our observations regarding the interaction of socioeconomic status and genetics on disease risk are replicated in people from higher-income countries. high," added Hagenbeek.
It seems that the goal of this study is to incorporate genetic information into health care by personalizing each check-up and treatment based on genetic data.
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Source: New York Post
