Should We Consider Adverse Environmental Factors in Understanding PTSD?

Research Paper Title Do Different Types of War Stressors Have Independent Relations With Mental Health? Findings From the Korean Vietnam Veterans Study. Background South Korea had the second largest contingent of soldiers in the Vietnam War, but little is known about their adaptation, especially in later life. Previous work in a different sample found very… Read More

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Diabetes & Social Disadvantage

Social disadvantage linked to diabetes through chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation explained a quarter to a third of the association between social adversity and type 2 diabetes in a longstanding cohort from the UK. The Whitehall II study has been tracking the health of selected government employees since 1985. The new analyses modelled data from 6387… Read More