Effects of childhood and middle-adulthood family conditions on later-life mortality: evidence from the Utah Population Database, 1850-2002.

Effects of Childhood and Middle-Adulthood Family Conditions on Later-Life Mortality: Evidence from the Utah Population

Childhood socioeconomic status, adult socioeconomic status, and old-age health trajectories: Connecting early, middle, and late life

BACKGROUND The paper advances literature on earlier-life socioeconomic status (SES) and later-life health in a number of ways, including conceptualizing later-life health as a developmental process and relying on objective rather than retrospective reports of childhood and adult SES and health. METHODS Data are from the Utah Population Database (N=75,019), which contains variables from Medicare...

Variation in the effects of family background and birth region on adult obesity: results of a prospective cohort study of a Great Depression-era American cohort

BACKGROUND Studies have identified prenatal and early childhood conditions as important contributors to weight status in later life. To date, however, few studies have considered how weight status in adulthood is shaped by regional variation in early-life conditions, rather than the characteristics of the individual or their family. Furthermore, gender and life course differences in the salienc...

The Place of Race in Hypertension: How Family Background and Neighborhood Conditions in Childhood Impact Later-life Health

This paper investigates the role of family background and neighborhood conditions over the life course, particularly during childhood, in influencing health later in life, with a focus on the case of hypertension. Most of the black-white difference in life expectancy stem from racial differences in mortality rates prior to age 65. Thus, understanding sources of racial health disparities require...

Relationship Between Breast Feeding Duration Childhood and Blood Pressure in Early Adulthood

Introduction: Breastfeeding produces an important effect on the physiology of the body, metabolism and human clinical status. Available evidence suggested that breastfeeding has a prophylactic effect on adiposity, blood pressure and other chronic diseases. Thus, this study was conducted to determine the association between infant breastfeeding and blood pressure status in early adulthood. Ma...