A major new study shows more reliable than lesbian, gay, bisexual, and are less healthy than heterosexual. The National Health Survey exam...
A major new study shows more reliable than lesbian, gay, bisexual, and are less healthy than heterosexual.
The National Health Survey examined nearly 70,000 Americans in 2013 and 2014, with an average age of 47 years.
The organization has since 1957 carried out similar studies, but this was the first time that respondents were asked about their sexual orientation. The study was published in the Journal of American Medical Association of Internal Medicine.
The number of people who identify as heterosexual amounted to 67,150, lesbians: 525 Gay: 624 and Bisexual: 515th
Gilbert Gonzalez of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and colleagues found that compared to heterosexual women, lesbians 91 percent more likely, fair or poor health and twice as likely to report were to have multiple chronic diseases. bisexual women were twice as likely to chronic diseases like heart disease and heterosexual women to report breast cancer.
Gays, lesbians and bisexuals were also more likely to report than heterosexuals heavy drinking and smoking.
In addition to the differences in physical health, the survey also captures differences in mental health. According to the survey, mental disorders in homosexual even worse, but severe in bisexual.
While only 17 percent of heterosexual men reported psychological distress, 26 percent of gay men reported that 40 percent of bisexual men.
Similarly, 22 percent of heterosexual women reported psychological distress, while 28 percent of lesbians and women made 46 percent of bisexual men reported.
Gonzales said the reason bisexual Reuters the greatest psychological distress reported is probably because they are all sexual minorities less accepted: lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people.
Archives of Internal Medicine think due the reason of deterioration of health among homosexuals and bisexuals compared to heterosexuals on the way is they are often treated. The researchers say these groups "were more likley deteriorating physical and mental health, excessive consumption of alcohol and cigarettes heavier, possibly due to stress factors (it) to report experience because of the inter-discrimination and structural," they wrote online June 28
The survey was conducted before gay marriage was legalized in, 2015.
"It will be interesting to see how the legal same-sex marriage will affect health disparities tehse" Gonzales said.
In touch with the study published by the editor, Dr. Mitchell Katz wrote "Health care professionals by creating environments can help the integrative and supportive of sexual minority patients."
"Incaring for people who have suffered prejudice and discrimination, the media is a very powerful drug," he said. "It is important that our federal begin studies to collect the state of sexual orientation and gender identity."
The link between discrimination and poor health was also studied in racial minorities. According to the journalists of resources, "studies have shown consistently that the experience of discrimination with the condition worse and overall health is connected, but conclusions on certain factors that were contradictory. Much depends on the health problem in question as well as different approaches , which emphasizes the study of these questions will better understand the controversy in the field. "
