The system of incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year >prisonpolicy.org/reports/money.html
Youth of mixed race/ethnicity are more likely to be at risk for poor mental health outcomes even with a similar number of external developmental assets as their single race/ethnic counterparts. >ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29855805
Low IQ is associated with increased odds of obesity, particularly in female adolescents and in adolescents with high SES. >ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339055
Cross-sectional studies have found that obesity is associated with low intellectual ability and neuroimaging abnormalities in adolescence and adulthood. >ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813310/
Childhood general intelligence has a direct effect on adult BMI, obesity, and weight gain, net of education, earnings, mother's BMI, father's BMI, childhood social class, and sex. More intelligent children grow up to eat more healthy foods and exercise more frequently as adults. >onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.20018
Unintended pregnancies increase the risk for poor maternal and infant outcomes and in 2010, resulted in $21 billion in direct medical costs in the United States. >cdc.gov/sixeighteen/pregnancy/
In 2006, disability-associated health care expenditures accounted for 26.7% of all health care expenditures for adults residing in the United States and totaled $397.8 billion. >cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/data-highlights.html
In the United States, nearly half of all black adults have some form of cardiovascular disease, compared with about one-third of all white adults. Even after adjustment for factors related to socioeconomic differences, disparities in rates of heart disease and its risk factors persist. A genetic difference that predisposes blacks to high blood pressure might play a role. >health.harvard.edu/heart-health/race-and-ethnicity-clues-to-your-heart-disease-risk
Stroke costs the United States an estimated $34 billion each year.This total includes the cost of health care services, medicines to treat stroke, and missed days of work. >cdc.gov/stroke/facts.htm
Total costs associated with high blood pressure in 2011 in the US were $46 billion in health care services, medications, and missed days of work >cdc.gov/bloodpressure/faqs.htm
tl;dr middle east and north africa is inbred as fuck
Consanguinity is a deeply rooted social trend among one-fifth of the world population mostly residing in the Middle East, West Asia and North Africa, as well as among emigrants from these communities now residing in North America, Europe and Australia. >ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419292/
Many Arab countries display some of the highest rates of consanguineous marriages in the world, and specifically first cousin marriages which may reach 25-30% of all marriages >ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19811666
In conclusion, consanguineous marriage is significantly higher in many genetic diseases which suggests that couples may have deleterious lethal genes, inherited from common ancestor and when transmitted to their offsprings, they can lead to prenatal, neonatal, child morbidity or mortality. >sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110863013000037
