Separate and combined effects of individual and neighbourhood socio-economic disadvantage on health-related lifestyle risk factors: a multilevel analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Socio-economic disadvantage at both individual and neighbourhood levels has been found to be associated with single lifestyle risk factors. However, it is unknown to what extent their combined effects contribute to a broad lifestyle profile. We aimed to (i) investigate the associations of individual socio-economic disadvantage (ISED) and neighbourhood socio-economic disadvantage (NSED) in relation to an extended score of health-related lifestyle risk factors (lifestyle risk index); and to (ii) investigate whether NSED modified the association between ISED and the lifestyle risk index.

Methods

Of 77 244 participants [median age (IQR): 46 (40-53) years] from the Lifelines cohort study in the northern Netherlands, we calculated a lifestyle risk index by scoring the l

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743118 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature