Survey finds excess health problems in LGBT Population !

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Survey finds excess health problems in lesbians, gays, bisexuals!!!




Gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals reported more health problems than straight men and women, in a large U.S. survey.
For the first time since its launch in 1957, the National Health Interview Survey in 2013 and 2014 included a question about sexual orientation.
With nearly 69,000 participants, the survey revealed that lesbian, gay and bisexual adults "were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, and heavy cigarette use, potentially due to the stressors that (they) experience as a result of interpersonal and structural discrimination," researchers wrote online June 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Overall, 67,150 survey respondents were heterosexual, 525 lesbian, 624 gay and 515 bisexual. The average age was about 47.
Gilbert Gonzales of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and colleagues found that compared to heterosexual women, lesbians were 91 percent more likely to report poor or fair health. Lesbians were 51 percent more likely, and bisexual women were more than twice as likely, to report multiple chronic conditions, compared to straight women.
Gay, lesbian and bisexual people were also more likely than heterosexuals to report heavy drinking and smoking.
While gays and lesbians reported worse psychological distress than heterosexuals, bisexual people suffered the most, the survey showed.






For example, about 17 percent of heterosexual men had at least moderate psychological distress, compared to about 26 percent of gay men and about 40 percent of bisexual men.
Similarly, about 22 percent of heterosexual women had at least moderate psychological distress, compared to about 28 percent of lesbian women and about 46 percent of bisexual women.
Gonzales told Reuters Health that the health disparities are likely due to the stress of being a minority, which is likely exacerbated among bisexual people, who may not be accepted by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
"While there aren’t that many studies focusing on bisexual adults, previous studies have indicated they’re probably at greater risk," he said.




https://ca.news.yahoo.com/survey-finds-excess-health-problems-lesbians-gays-bisexuals-224741845.html

[wvit1001]

Bigots like you HK can cause people lots of stress.  You should chill out on your hate some.

[Jim]

 
If the Left refuse to pay hospital bills for smokers then I refuse to pay the hospital bills of those whose lifestyle causes them to be more sick than the general public.

Fair is Fair

[wvit1001]

Is someone refusing to pay the hospital bills for smokers?

[WWV10MHZ]

Why should Normal People be blamed for stress in people choosing to live abnormal/unhealthy lifestyles? ? ? ? ?

[jst-the-fax]

wvit
Do you and hawkie have above normal health Issues?

[wmdn_bs]

Is it health concerns that is preventing some of you righties from coming out of the closet? Were you also aware that hatred and bigotry also is a stressor that can shorten your life?

Remember this quote from Mark Twain. It is a paraphrased Chinese proverb and has been quoted in various forms for a great many years.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

[sweetwater5s9]

Those who advocate full acceptance of homosexual behavior choose to downplay the growing and incontrovertible evidence regarding the serious, life-threatening health effects associated with the homosexual lifestyle. Homosexual advocacy groups have a moral duty to disseminate medical information that might dissuade individuals from entering or continuing in an inherently unhealthy and dangerous lifestyle. Education officials in particular have a duty to provide information regarding the negative health effects of homosexuality to students in their charge, whose very lives are put at risk by engaging in such behavior. Above all, civil society itself has an obligation to institute policies that promote the health and well-being of its citizens.

Timothy J. Dailey, Ph.D.