Racial/Ethnic Differences in Mortality in Late Midlife: Have They Narrowed in Recent Years?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine whether racial/ethnic differences in mortality rates have changed in recent years among adults in late midlife, and if so, how.

Methods

We analyze Health and Retirement Study data on non-Hispanic Whites (Whites), non-Hispanic Blacks (Blacks), and English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanics (Hispanic-English and Hispanic-Spanish), aged 50-64 from 2 periods: 1998-2004 (Period 1, n = 8,920) and 2004-2010 (Period 2, n = 7,224). Using survey-generalized linear regression techniques, we model death-by-end-of-period as a function of race/ethnicity and sequentially adjust for a series of period-specific baseline risk factors including demographics, health status, health insurance, health behaviors, and social networks. Regression decomposition techniques are used t

SUBMITTER: Doza A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8521734 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature