Life-Course Socioeconomic Status and Metabolic Syndrome Among Midlife Women.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examine whether women's risks of having metabolic syndrome (MetS) at pre/early-menopausal baseline, and of developing MetS after baseline, are associated with childhood and adult socioeconomic statuses (SESs); and whether the associations are mediated by adult reproductive, economic, behavioral, and psychosocial factors.

Method

Using data on white and black women collected prospectively for 12 years in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, we estimated odds of MetS at pre/early-menopausal baseline with logistic regression, and incidence of MetS after baseline with Cox proportional hazards models.

Results

Women raised in "adverse" childhood SES had marginally greater odds of MetS at baseline than did women raised in "good" SES, and women with a h

SUBMITTER: Montez JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5067946 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature