Older Adults in the United States Have Worse Cardiometabolic Health Compared to England.

ABSTRACT: Explanations for lagging life expectancy in the United States compared to other high-income countries have focused largely on "deaths of despair," but attention has also shifted to the role of stalling improvements in cardiovascular disease and the obesity epidemic. Using harmonized data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we assess differences in self-reported and objective measures of health, among older adults in the United States and England and explore whether the differences in body mass index (BMI) documented between the United States and England explain the U.S. disadvantage. Older adults in the United States have a much higher prevalence of diabetes, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high inflammation (C-reactive protein)

SUBMITTER: Pongiglione B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9154237 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature