Associations of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage With Chronic Conditions by Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity in a Population-Based Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the association of socioeconomic status at the census block group level with chronic conditions and to determine whether the associations differ by age, sex, race, or ethnicity.

Methods

Adults aged 20 years and older on April 1, 2015, from 7 counties in southern Minnesota were identified using the Rochester Epidemiology Project records-linkage system. We estimated the prevalence of 19 chronic conditions (7 cardiometabolic, 7 other somatic, and 5 mental health conditions) at the individual level and a composite measure of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage (the area deprivation index [ADI]) at the census block group level (n=249).

Results

Among the 197,578 persons in our study, 46.7% (92,373) were male, 49.5% (97,801) were aged 50 years and

SUBMITTER: Chamberlain AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8775356 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature