Are Recent Cohorts Getting Worse? Trends in US Adult Physiological Status, Mental Health, and Health Behaviors Across a Century of Birth Cohorts.

ABSTRACT: Morbidity and mortality have been increasing among middle-aged and young-old Americans since the turn of the century. We investigated whether these unfavorable trends extend to younger cohorts and their underlying physiological, psychological, and behavioral mechanisms. Applying generalized linear mixed-effects models to data from 62,833 adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (1988-2016) and 625,221 adults from the National Health Interview Surveys (1997-2018), we found that for all sex and racial groups, physiological dysregulation has increased continuously from Baby Boomers through late-Generation X and Generation Y. The magnitude of the increase was higher for White men than for other groups, while Black men had a steepest increase in low urinary albumin (a m

SUBMITTER: Zheng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8799895 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature