Educational quality may be a closer correlate of cardiometabolic health than educational attainment.

ABSTRACT: Educational quality may be a closer correlate of physical health than more commonly used measures of educational attainment (e.g., years in school). We examined whether a widely-used performance-based measure of educational quality is more closely associated with cardiometabolic health than educational attainment (highest level of education completed), and whether perceived control (smaller sample only), executive functioning (both samples), and health literacy (smaller sample only) link educational quality to cardiometabolic health. In two samples (N = 98 and N = 586) collected from different regions of the US, educational quality was associated with cardiometabolic health above and beyond educational attainment, other demographic factors (age, ethnoracial category, sex), and fluid intell

SUBMITTER: Cundiff JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9613691 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature