Joint Associations of Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status With Mortality in the Multiethnic Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Socioeconomic status may help delineate racial and ethnic inequities in mortality.

Objective

To investigate the joint associations of race, ethnicity, and neighborhood and individual socioeconomic status with mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective analysis used data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study. A population-based sample of participants recruited from California (mainly Los Angeles County) and Hawaii from 1993 to 1996 was followed up until 2013. African American, European American, Japanese American, Latino American, and Native Hawaiian men and women were included. Participants with baseline residential addresses that could not be geocoded or who were missing information on education or adjustment variables were excluded. Data an

SUBMITTER: Sangaramoorthy M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9002338 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature