Childhood socioeconomic hardship, family conflict, and young adult hypertension: The Santiago Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Stress derived from socioeconomic disadvantage can be damaging to mental and physical health. This study uses longitudinal data on a large prospectively studied cohort to examine how socioeconomic hardship during childhood leads to hypertension in young adulthood by its effects on family conflict, anxiety-depression, and body mass.

Method

Data are from 1,039 participants of the Santiago Longitudinal Study who were studied in childhood (M age 10 years), adolescence (14-17 years), and young adulthood (21-26 years). As young adults, 26% had elevated blood pressure or hypertension.

Results

Children from more economically disadvantaged families experienced higher levels of family conflict, which related to significant increases in anxiety-depression and body mass

SUBMITTER: East P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7242127 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature