Cardiovascular Risk and the American Dream: Life Course Observations From the BHS (Bogalusa Heart Study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Economic literature shows that a child's future earnings are predictably influenced by parental income, providing an index of "socioeconomic mobility," or the ability of a person to move towards a higher socioeconomic status from childhood to adulthood. We adapted this economic paradigm to examine cardiovascular risk mobility (CRM), or whether there is life course mobility in relative cardiovascular risk.

Methods and results

Participants from the BHS (Bogalusa Heart Study) with 1 childhood and 1 adult visit from 1973 to 2016 (n=7624) were considered. We defined population-level CRM as the rank-rank slope (β) from the regression of adult cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk percentile ranking onto childhood CVD risk percentile ranking (β=0 represents complete mobility

SUBMITTER: Pollock BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5850254 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature