Change in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics: Findings From the Health and Retirement Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Blacks experience greater multisystem physiological dysregulation, or cumulative biological risk, which is associated with poor cardiometabolic health and mortality. In this study, we assess race differences in change in risk over 4 years among older whites, blacks, and Hispanics.

Method

We examined race differences in 4-year change in individual biomarkers and a cumulative measure of risk-cardiometabolic risk (CMR)-using data for each respondent from two waves of the Health and Retirement Study's biomarker assessment (n = 5,512). CMR is a count of high-risk cardiovascular and metabolic biomarkers. We estimated mean CMR at baseline and follow-up by race/ethnicity, and used logistic regression to determine whether race differences exist in 4-year transitions betwee

SUBMITTER: Mitchell UA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6333938 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature