socioeconomic status

Association of individual and community-level socioeconomic status and education with medication use: a multilevel analysis in the PERSIAN cohort | BMC Public Health

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Study design and participants This cross-sectional study utilized baseline data from the Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in IrAN (PERSIAN), a cohort designed to investigate the burden and risk factors of non-communicable diseases in Iran. The cohort includes participants aged 35 to 70 years from 18 geographically distinct sites, selected to represent diverse ethnic, environmental, and … Read more

Recent Mammography Screening in Seniors Associated with 54 Percent Lower Risk of Later-Stage Diagnosis

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Emerging research suggests that prior mammography screening within five years of breast cancer diagnosis for seniors significantly reduces the risks of later-stage diagnosis and breast cancer-specific mortality. For the study, recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers reviewed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database for 13,028 women who had screening mammography-detected … Read more