Better education links to good heart health
A new study has emphasized the role of better education than wealth in tackling cardiovascular diseases. The study explored the association between education and wealth, on the one hand, and cardiovascular diseases and mortality due to them, on the other,to assess which marker was the stronger predictor of outcomes and examined whether any difference in socioeconomic status influenced the levels of risk factors and how the diseases are managed.
"How much money you have tends to be a strong predictor of health outcomes, but education seems to be a far more robust measure to use across countries," says Dr Scott Lear, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
In this cohort study, the researchers looked at 367 urban and 302 rural communities in 20 countries –India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China,...









