A Socioecological Mixture Model of Asthma Prevalence Among Sexual Minority Adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Purpose: Sexual minority (SM) identity as well as sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors are associated with asthma prevalence. A syndemics framework analyzes disease conditions in a population and the social, economic, and environmental contexts in which they are found. We used a syndemic model of individual-level socioecological factors to identify profiles of asthma prevalence among SM adults. Methods: Latent class analysis (LCA) was conducted on a subpopulation of SM adults aged 18-59 years from the 2001 to 2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Indicators in the LCA model included current asthma, gender, sexual identity, poverty-income ratio, education, and serum cotinine level. Multinomial logistic regression analyzed the effects of cov

SUBMITTER: Talham CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9734020 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature