Socioeconomic status, psychosocial resources and risk, and cardiometabolic risk in Mexican-American women.
Population
304 middle-aged (40-65 years old) Mexican-American women from a randomly selected community cohort
Design
Cohort
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports testing psychosocial interventions to mitigate low-SES metabolic effects in more-acculturated Mexican-American women; leaves open generalizability to less-acculturated groups.
Structured PICO
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Population
304 middle-aged (40-65 years old) Mexican-American women from a randomly selected community cohort
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Outcome
Metabolic syndrome risk factors (blood pressure, lipids, glucose, waist circumference)surrogate
Psychosocial factors mediate the relationship between low socioeconomic status and core metabolic mechanisms (waist circumference and fasting glucose) in middle-aged, more-U.S.-acculturated Mexican-American women.
Cite This Study
Gallo et al. (2011) studied this question.