from the investigative reporter just speaking there at the associated press, and she said often these outcomes are being put down to physical differences which may play one part, but one thing i know you have touched on in the past is weathering essentially how long term discrepancies in the health system can result in poor birth outcomes. tell us more about that. yeah, so where this is really important to take into account, when you look at the statistics and you break down by socio economic status, black women, of high socio economic status have a higher mortality rate than white women with less than high school education, and we should be appalled by any woman dying but those statistics highlight that poverty is not only a play at play here, and chronic stress from discrimination, for years and generations is having an impact on the health of black people and in this case black women
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weathering, essentially how long term discrepancies in the health system can result in poor birth outcomes. tell us more about that. poor birth outcomes. tell us more about that. yeah, so where this is really more about that. yeah, so where this is really important more about that. yeah, so where this is really important to - this is really important to take into account, when you look at the statistics and you break down by socio economic status, black women, hi socio economic status have a higher mortality rate than white women with less than high school education, and we should be appalled by any woman dying with those statistics highlight that poverty is not only a play here, and chronic stress from discrimination, for years and generations is having an impact on the health of black people and in this case black women in this country, increasing the risk of hypertension, diabetes, actually affecting the dna that causes premature ageing in black people, because of
schmidt, a professor and molecular epidemiologist in the department of public health sciences at the uc davis school of medicine, thanks for being here with us. when it comes to the health effects of the wildfire smoke we ve been talking generally about the acute problems that can cause breathing difficulties, cardiovascular, and so on, but it could have longer-term effects as well, including on pregnancy, and newborns, which is something you ve been particularly interested in, what has your research found? yeah, so so far we re still waiting to follow up our ongoing studies to see the long-term impacts but what we re finding with wildfire smoke is that there s similar effects as other types of air pollution with wildfire smoke exposure, and even though it s shorter exposure, it s having some of the similar effects on things like birth outcomes, including low birth weight and pre-term birth. yeah, i mean, that s
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