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UMMC study to explore why rural Mississippians die younger than others

In an effort to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the same counties as well as across the country, researchers from the University of Mississippi Medica …


Study aims to learn why people in the rural South are less healthy, die sooner

Why people in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than those who reside elsewhere in the United States is the focus of a new national study that will be based at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.


Why are those born in the rural South less healthy and prone to die sooner?

Researchers from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health are participating in a landmark study to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the count …


Q&A: What’s driving health issues in rural America?

A newly launched study called RURAL, from researchers behind the long-running Framingham Heart Study, will follow 4,000 participants over the next six years in 10 low-income counties in Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi to better understand …


UVA Study: Why are those born in the rural South less healthy, prone to die sooner?

A researcher from the UVA School of Medicine is helping to lead a new study to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.


U of L To Participate In New Four-State Study On Rural Health Outcomes

A new study hopes to help researchers understand what causes high rates of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders (HLBS) in rural Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana


RURAL Study to Examine Health Burdens in the South

People born in rural communities in the South, especially in southern Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, may live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the country, in part due to a high burden of HLBS disorders.


New Study at UMMC to Explore Disease Risk Factors in Rural South

In an effort to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the same counties as well as across the country, researchers from the University of Mississippi Medica …


LSU’s Pennington Research Center Assists in Study Looking at Why Some RURAL Southerners Live Longer and Healthier Lives

Researchers from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center and other institutions will study why some people in rural parishes and counties live longer, healthier lives. Doctor Stephanie Broyles will lead the Louisiana portion of the study and they’l …


Researchers to study heart, lung disease in Franklin Parish

Seven hundred people from Franklin and Assumption parishes will be recruited for a new health study researching the effects of heart and lung disease in southern rural communities.