Childhood socioeconomic hardship, family conflict, and young adult hypertension: The Santiago Longitudinal Study

Patricia East, Jenalee Doom, Erin Delker, Estela Blanco, Raquel Burrows, Paulina Correa-Burrows, Betsy Lozoff and Sheila Gahagan

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 253, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Chile; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Socioeconomic hardship; Body mass index; Family conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112962

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