Socioeconomic status and health: is parasympathetic nervous system activity an intervening mechanism? | Zendy

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Socioeconomic status and health: is parasympathetic nervous system activity an intervening mechanism?

Author(s) -

Richard P. Sloan,

Mei-Hua Huang,

Stephen Sidney,

Kiang Liu,

O. Dale Williams,

Teresa E. Seeman

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyh381

Subject(s) - psychosocial , socioeconomic status , medicine , mechanism (biology) , educational attainment , demography , stressor , disease , population , environmental health , clinical psychology , psychiatry , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , economics , economic growth

The link between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is widely recognized but the pathophysiologic mechanisms are not well understood. We tested the hypothesis that parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) regulation is one such mechanism.

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