Cardiometabolic Dysfunction Among U.S. Adolescents and Area-Level Poverty: Race/Ethnicity-Specific Associations.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine race/ethnicity-specific associations between area-level poverty and cardiometabolic dysfunction among U.S. adolescents.

Methods

Data were from 10,415 adolescents aged 12-19 in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2012), linked with census tract data on area-level poverty (the percent population living in poverty, grouped into race/ethnicity-specific quartiles). Cardiometabolic dysfunction was parameterized by summing z-scores of six cardiometabolic biomarkers, grouped into quintiles. Hierarchical ordinal models estimated overall and race/ethnicity specific associations. Posthoc analysis explored associations between area-level poverty and family poverty-to-income ratio.

Results

Overall, compared to adolescents residing in areas

SUBMITTER: Williams AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318802 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature