Journal article
Understanding the relation between socioeconomic position and inflammation in post-menopausal women: education, income and occupational prestige
European journal of public health, v 27(6), pp 1074-1079
01 Dec 2017
PMID: 29186460
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Abstract
The role of occupational prestige, a direct measure of the perceived status of job and job holder, in inflammation is unknown. To contribute to understanding the pathways by which socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with inflammation, we aimed to estimate the direct effects of education, income and occupational prestige on C-reactive protein (CRP) and to describe the relationship between these markers and CRP.
The study was based on 2026 post-menopausal women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative-Observational Study. Occupational prestige was determined by linking a text description of longest held occupation with a social status item from the Occupational Information Network. Path analysis was employed to estimate direct and mediated effects.
The study suggests that higher levels of education, income, and occupational prestige are associated with 8% (95% CI as percentage change -12, -4), 5% [95% CI (-8, -2) and 4% (95% CI - 7, -1)] lower levels of CRP, respectively. The inverse association between education and CRP was explained by the effect of education on income and occupational prestige. The effect of occupational prestige on CRP was independent of mediators in the model.
The findings indicate that education may work to influence CRP primarily through increasing income and occupational prestige and provides evidence that occupational prestige captures a unique aspect of SEP.
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- Title
- Understanding the relation between socioeconomic position and inflammation in post-menopausal women: education, income and occupational prestige
- Creators
- Jolene Masters Pedersen - Univ Copenhagen, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Copenhagen, DenmarkEsben Budtz-Jorgensen - Univ Copenhagen, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Copenhagen, DenmarkAnneclaire De Roos - Drexel University, Urban Health CollaborativeLorena Garcia - University of California, DavisRikke Lund - Univ Copenhagen, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Copenhagen, DenmarkNaja Hulvej Rod - Univ Copenhagen, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Copenhagen, DenmarkCandyce Kroenke - KaiserKei Hang Katie Chan - Brown Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Providence, RI 02912 USASimin Liu - Brown UniversityYvonne Michael - Drexel University, Urban Health Collaborative
- Publication Details
- European journal of public health, v 27(6), pp 1074-1079
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 6
- Grant note
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) 100-33-91001 / Centre for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Environmental and Occupational Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000417339000024
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85049081784
- Other Identifier
- 991019168872604721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health