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Early Life and Adult Socioeconomic Influences on Mortality Risk: Preliminary Report of a ‘Pauper Rich’ Paradox in a Chilean Adult Cohort
- Source :
- Annals of Epidemiology. 20:487-492
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- The inverse relationship between early life and adult socioeconomic measures and mortality risk has been well established in developed countries, but remains practically unexplored in Latin American societies. The setting was Chile; the study included 11,600 adults living in the urban center of San Francisco de Mostazal. This was a prospective cohort study of a weighted random sample of 795 subjects followed up during 8 years.Education (elementary, high school and college), height (percentiles 50 and 75), and income (population quartiles) were assessed at baseline. Relative risks of all-cause mortality were computed in Cox regression models adjusting for age, gender, body mass index, smoking status, and joint effects of the socioeconomic measures.A graded inverse relationship with all-cause mortality was observed for education (risk: 1.0, 0.67, and 0.30, p for trend0.01) and height (risk: 1.0, 0.75, and 0.56, p for trend0.01), but not for income (p for trend = 0.94).These findings suggest a 'pauper rich' paradox in transitioning Latin American economies. Income level does not seem sufficient to improve survival in cohorts exposed to adverse early life influences reflected by education and height.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Risk
Epidemiology
Population
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Risk Assessment
Body Mass Index
Cohort Studies
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Medicine
Prospective Studies
Chile
Mortality
education
Prospective cohort study
Developing Countries
Poverty
Socioeconomic status
Aged
Proportional Hazards Models
Aged, 80 and over
education.field_of_study
Proportional hazards model
business.industry
Age Factors
Health Status Disparities
Middle Aged
Socioeconomic Factors
Relative risk
Multivariate Analysis
Cohort
Income
Educational Status
business
Body mass index
Demography
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10472797
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Epidemiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5c04a0335c99ad652ed3957380e00392