New preprint online!

Our second study from the Turkana Health and Genomics Project is online in preprint form at medRxiv! This study examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and health in Turkana individuals practicing traditional pastoralism versus living in urban areas. We find that higher socioeconomic status and greater material wealth predicts better self-reported health in pastoralist Turkana, but worse cardiometabolic health in urban Turkana. Thus, we show that the relationship between wealth and health can be highly-context dependent, and even vary within a single population as a function of lifestyle. Check it out!