Nurturing parents may partially counteract inflammation, an overactivated state of the immune system that underlies many health problems, in children of low socioeconomic status (SES), according to a study. Children of low SES often experience poorer health than children of higher SES at all stages of life, including lower birth weights at infancy, higher rates of obesity and diabetes during childhood, and higher rates of age-related cardiovascular disease and cancer.
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