The Longitudinal Influence of Social Determinants of Health on Glycemic Control in Elderly Adults With Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to understand the longitudinal relationship between financial, psychosocial, and neighborhood social determinants and glycemic control (HbA_1c) in older adults with diabetes.

Research design and methods

Data from 2,662 individuals with self-reported diabetes who participated in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) were used. Participants were followed from 2006 through 2014. Financial hardship, psychosocial, and neighborhood-level social determinant factors were based on validated surveys from the biennial core interview and RAND data sets. All social determinant factors and measurements of HbA_1c from the time period were used and treated as time varying in analyses. SAS PROC GLIMMIX was used to fit a series of hierarchical li

SUBMITTER: Walker RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7085811 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature