Another fallout from the Great Recession: Fewer people took their blood pressure and diabetes medications
The Great Recession took a toll on people’s health, a new study finds, and those effects could have long-term consequences.
The Great Recession had dramatic and visible effects: Millions of Americans lost their homes; more than 8 million people lost their jobs. But a new study finds that it also had invisible effects on people’s health — and that those effects could have long-term consequences.
Using a long-running study on heart health, scientists evaluated blood pressure and blood glucose measurements from 2000 to 2012. They found that those metrics were significantly worse after the recession hit in 2007 — at least in part due to fewer people taking their medicines.
The finding provides some of the strongest
