Alternatively, the selection criteria may have confounded the association of wealth and depression, as discussed in the limitations section below.
Our study could not confirm an association of wealth with BMI, possibly because all study participants had rather similar wealth status, as is typical in rural areas, and because the association between wealth and BMI might be, in general, more pronounced in urban areas.
Of interest is that the association of relative wealth with both CMD and suicidality observed in the univariate analysis falls away in multivariable analysis, a pattern observed in relation to income in other LMICs [ 2].
Although soap and ash ownership showed significant patterns of association with wealth of a household, there was no difference between case and control caretakers in ownership of any soap (P = 0.85), soap only (P = 0.98), any ash (P = 0.50), or ash only (P = 0.10) (Table 4).
We also find evidence of positive associations between wealth or expenditures and multiple partnerships for men and women; as well as very strong associations with ethnic origin for women, but not for men.
The associations of women and partner education, wealth index, and religion with FGM risk were not statistically significant.
Multivariate Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate independent associations between wealth and the uptake of cataract surgery, controlling for the effects of potentially confounding variables.
The findings from this study support other evidence of positive association between wealth and use of health care in rich and poor countries (9, 38).
Or is it the brutal reality of a criminal association whose only goal is the parasitical accumulation of wealth?
Luis Cubilla, an economist with the soy traders' association Capeco, argues that it "brings enormous flows of wealth into the countryside".
