Cross-border ties, nativity, and inflammatory markers in a population-based prospective study of Latino adults.

ABSTRACT: Even after migration, immigrants and their descendants may continue to have ties to family and friends who remain in places of origin. Recent research suggests that these cross-border social ties have implications for health, although this scholarship has been limited to self-reported outcomes. Using data from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA), we estimate associations between cross-border social ties and inflammatory biomarkers among Latino adults (n = 1786). We find that immigrants who maintained any cross-border connection to family and friends in Latin America had significantly lower levels of baseline interleukin-6 (IL-6) and C-reactive protein (CRP) compared to their US-born counterparts with no cross-border ties. These results held for values of CRP at five-year foll

SUBMITTER: Torres JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108549 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature