{"id":3156,"date":"2010-09-09T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:50","slug":"protective-effect-of-education-only-occurs-in-high-income-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/09\/09\/protective-effect-of-education-only-occurs-in-high-income-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Protective Effect of Education Only Occurs in High-Income Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The well-known cardiovascular protective effect of education only occurs in high-income countries (HICs), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.919274v1\">a new report from the REACH registry appearing in <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.919274v1\">Circulation<\/a><\/em>. A striking finding was that\u00a0highly educated women were more likely than their less educated counterparts to smoke in both affluent countries and less affluent countries. The authors point out that &#8220;studies linking socioeconomic status to cardiovascular outcomes in HICs cannot be extrapolated to LMICs (low- or middle-income countries), particularly for women.&#8221; Overall, educational attainment was protective in HICs, but not in LMICs, against obesity, smoking, and hypertension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The well-known cardiovascular protective effect of education only occurs in high-income countries (HICs), according to a new report from the REACH registry appearing in Circulation. A striking finding was that\u00a0highly educated women were more likely than their less educated counterparts to smoke in both affluent countries and less affluent countries. The authors point out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[386,290,387,233],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-education","tag-epidemiology","tag-income","tag-outcomes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}