Cardiovascular health: associations with race-ethnicity, nativity, and education in a diverse, population-based sample of Californians.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study examined how race-ethnicity, nativity, and education interact to influence disparities in cardiovascular (CV) health, a new concept defined by the American Heart Association. We assessed whether race-ethnicity and nativity disparities in CV health vary by education and whether the foreign-born differ in CV health from their U.S.-born race-ethnic counterparts with comparable education.

Methods

We used data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey to determine the prevalence of optimal CV health metrics (based on selected American Heart Association guidelines) among adults ages 25 and older (n = 42,014). We examined the interaction between education and ethnicity-nativity, comparing predicted probabilities of each CV health measure between U.S.-born

SUBMITTER: Bostean G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3794704 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature