Socio-economic trajectories and cardiovascular disease mortality in older people: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Socio-economic status from early life has been linked to cardiovascular disease risk, but the impact of life-course socio-economic trajectories, as well as the mechanisms underlying social inequalities in cardiovascular disease risk, is uncertain.

Objectives

We assessed the role of behavioural, psychosocial and physiological (including inflammatory) factors in the association between life-course socio-economic status and cardiovascular disease mortality in older adults.

Methods

Participants were 7846 individuals (44% women) from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a representative study of individuals aged ≥ 50 years, established in 2002-03. Comprising four indicators of socio-economic status (father's social class, own education, occupational positio

SUBMITTER: Stringhini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5837467 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature