The association of parental and offspring educational attainment with systolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and waist circumference in Latino adults

Obesity Science & Practice

Sally Moyce¹  Julia Ward²  Allison E. Aiello²  Anne Lee³  Jessica Cruz Whitley³  Mary Haan³  John Neuhaus³  Carmen A. Peralta³  Lenny López³  Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri⁴ 

[1] College of Nursing Montana State University MT USA;Gillings School of Public Health University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC USA;University of California, San Francisco San Francisco CA USA;University of Miami Coral Gables FL USA;

关键词: Cardiovascular disease;    cardiovascular risk factors;    educational attainment;    health disparities;   

DOI  :  10.1002/osp4.307

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Summary Objective The objective of the study is to evaluate the association of intergenerational educational attainment with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among US Latinos. Methods We used cross‐sectional data from the Niños Lifestyle and Diabetes Study, an offspring cohort of middle‐aged Mexican‐Americans whose parents participated in the Sacramento Latino Study on Aging. We collected educational attainment, demographic and health behaviours and measured systolic blood pressure (SBP), fasting glucose and waist circumference. We evaluated the association of parental, offspring and a combined parent–offspring education variable with each CVD risk factor using multivariable regression. Results Higher parental education was associated only with smaller offspring waist circumference. In contrast, higher offspring education was associated with lower SBP, fasting glucose and smaller waist circumference. Adjustment for parental health behaviours modestly attenuated these offspring associations, whereas adjustment for offspring health behaviours and income attenuated the associations of offspring education with offspring SBP and fasting glucose but not smaller waist circumference, even among offspring with low parental education. Conclusions Higher offspring education is associated with lower levels of CVD risk factors in adulthood, despite intergenerational exposure to low parental education.

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