Intergenerational educational mobility and type 2 diabetes in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

United States (US) Latinos have the lowest educational attainment of any US racial/ethnic group, which may contribute to their disparate burden of Type 2 Diabetes. Herein, we aimed to examine the association between intergenerational educational mobility and Type 2 Diabetes among US Latino adults.

Methods

We used data from the Niños Lifestyle and Diabetes Study (2013-2014) and the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (1998-1999) to link 616 adult Latino children to their parents. Model-based standardization and robust Poisson regression were used to estimate the prevalence of prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, treatment and glycemic control, and describe their associations with intergenerational educational mobility.

Results

Adult children with stable high interge

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Rhodes L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748283 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature