Journal article
Sex and ethnicity modify the associations between individual and contextual socioeconomic indicators and ideal cardiovascular health: MESA study
Journal of public health (Oxford, England), v 41(3), pp e237-e244
30 Sep 2019
PMID: 30137558
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Abstract
Abstract
Background
Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but its association with different markers of SES may be heterogeneous by sex and race/ethnicity.
Methods
We have examined the relationships of four SES markers (education, family income, occupation and neighborhood SES) to ideal cardiovascular health (ICH), an index formed by seven variables. A total of 6792 cohort participants from six regions in the USA: Baltimore City and Baltimore County, MD; Chicago, IL; Forsyth County, NC; Los Angeles County, CA; New York, NY; and St. Paul, MN of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (52.8% women) were recruited at baseline (2000–2) and included in the present analysis.
Results
ICH was classified as poor, intermediate or ideal. Level of education was significantly and inversely associated with ICH in non-Hispanic White men and women, in Chinese-American and Hispanic American men and African-American women. Family income was inversely and significantly associated with poor ICH in African-American men only.
Conclusions
We conclude that the strength of the associations between some SES markers and ICH differ between sexes and race/ethnic groups.
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Details
- Title
- Sex and ethnicity modify the associations between individual and contextual socioeconomic indicators and ideal cardiovascular health: MESA study
- Creators
- Augusto César Ferreira De Moraes - BloombergHeráclito Barbosa Carvalho - Universidade de São PauloRobyn L McClelland - University of WashingtonAna V Diez-Roux - Drexel UniversityMoyses Szklo - Bloomberg
- Publication Details
- Journal of public health (Oxford, England), v 41(3), pp e237-e244
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000493564400003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85073051305
- Other Identifier
- 991019168768604721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health