Stressful life events, sexual orientation, and cardiometabolic risk among young adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of the present study was to examine whether sexual minority young adults are more vulnerable to developing cardiometabolic risk following exposure to stressful life events than heterosexual young adults.

Method

Data came from the National Longitudinal Study for Adolescent Health (Shin, Edwards, & Heeren, 2009; Brummett et al., 2013), a prospective nationally representative study of U.S. adolescents followed into young adulthood. A total of 306 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) respondents and 6,667 heterosexual respondents met inclusion criteria for this analysis. Measures of cumulative stressful life events were drawn from all 4 waves of data collection; sexual orientation and cardiometabolic biomarkers were assessed at Wave 4 (2008-2009).

Results

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SUBMITTER: Hatzenbuehler ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4436691 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature