Quality of parental emotional care and calculated risk for coronary heart disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate associations between perceived quality of parental emotional care and calculated 10-year risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). Little is understood about the role of parental emotional care in contributing to the risk for CHD.

Methods

The study sample was composed of 267 participants from the New England Family Study. Quality of parental emotional care was measured, using a validated short version of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) as the average care scores for both parents (range = 0-12), with higher scores indicating greater care. Ten-year CHD risk was calculated, using the validated Framingham Risk Algorithm that incorporates the following prevalent CHD risk factors: age, sex, diabetes, smoking, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cho

SUBMITTER: Almeida ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2837946 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature