Prospective links between childhood family income and subclinical atherosclerosis in a sample of young men.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Men who experience childhood economic disadvantage may be at elevated risk for subclinical cardiovascular disease in adulthood, showing signs of disease 10 years before women. Leveraging prospective data from men who experienced low levels of family income in infancy/toddlerhood, we examine the variance in adult carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a putative marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, that is related to cumulative childhood family income.

Method

Data are from 145 men (31.7 years; 47.6% White) who participated in the Pathways to Health study, which is a follow-up study to the Pitt Mother & Infant Project that began in 1991. Between ages 1.5-17 years, participants' parents reported on their annual income on 13 occasions, which were averaged together to

SUBMITTER: Jones EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12857746 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature