Women with disadvantaged childhoods are more likely to have a heart attack in old age, but men who grow up under similar conditions are not, according to a new study by Duke University sociologists.
The peer-reviewed study, funded by the National Institute of Aging, will be presented Aug. 16 at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in Philadelphia.
The link between childhood poverty and poor health in old age is well-established, but this is one of a handful of studies to find a difference in the way men and women respond - in part because it examines men and women separately.
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