Artículo de revista
Childhood socioeconomic hardship, family conflict, and young adult hypertension: the Santiago longitudinal study
Fecha
2020Registro en:
Social Science & Medicine 253 (2020) 112962
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112962
Autor
East, Patricia
Doom, Jenalee R.
Delke, Erin
Blanco Reina, Estela
Burrows Argote, Raquel
Correa Burrows, Paulina
Lozoff, Betsy
Gahagan, Sheila
Institución
Resumen
Objective: Stress derived from socioeconomic disadvantage can be damaging to mental and physical health. This study uses longitudinal data on a large prospectively studied cohort to examine how socioeconomic hardship during childhood leads to hypertension in young adulthood by its effects on family conflict, anxiety-depression, and body mass.
Method: Data are from 1,039 participants of the Santiago Longitudinal Study who were studied in childhood (M age 10 years), adolescence (14-17 years), and young adulthood (21-26 years). As young adults, 26% had elevated blood pressure or hypertension.
Results: Children from more economically disadvantaged families experienced higher levels of family conflict, which related to significant increases in anxiety-depression and body mass over time, both of which were directly linked to hypertension in young adulthood.
Conclusions: Findings provide an understanding of how early-life adversity associated with socioeconomic hardship manifests as stress-related health problems in adulthood. Intervention efforts that target overweight/obesity and anxiety and depression that stem from childhood poverty might be useful for reducing the socioeconomic disparities in adult health.