This association explains the increased risk for cardiovascular disease and chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and psychotic conditions in subjects that were exposed to psychosocial trauma, social disadvantage, and discrimination. Socio-cultural mechanisms tend to augment this relation by perpetuating disparity even in the quality of health care, which tends to be inferior in socially disadvantaged population strata.
The linkage elucidates the elevated risk for cardiovascular disease and chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and psychotic disorders in people who have faced psychosocial trauma, social disadvantage, and discrimination. Socio-cultural factors tend to reinforce this link by exacerbating health disparities, particularly in terms of substandard healthcare quality that is more prevalent among socially disadvantaged populations.