The Scots and Hearts

Young Scots from deprived backgrounds are six times more likely to die from heart disease than affluent people in the same age group, research suggests.

These inequalities are persisting in spite of the widespread and constant health promotion and health prevention initiatives, which suggests substantial and continuing barriers to healthy changes .The authors said the differences were linked to unhealthy social environments, smoking and poor diet and maintain that these factors were more common in individuals from deprived backgrounds and that this study revealed major social inequalities in Scotland.

Professor Alastair Leyland, from the Medical Research Council in Glasgow, argues that as health promotion programmes had seen limited success, perhaps it was time "to tackle the social inequalities themselves - unequal distribution of power, money, resources and life chances."

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