Kidney disease and the cumulative burden of life course socioeconomic conditions: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

David A. Shoham, Suma Vupputuri, Jay S. Kaufman, Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Ana V. Diez Roux, Josef Coresh and Gerardo Heiss

Social Science & Medicine, 2008, vol. 67, issue 8, 1311-1320

Abstract: The authors investigated the cumulative effects of life course social class and neighborhood socioeconomic conditions on the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adulthood. Subjects were members of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, a longitudinal cohort study of four US communities. CKD was defined by glomerular filtration rate

Keywords: Kidney; diseases; Residence; characteristics; Social; class; Race; disparities; Life; course; USA; Cohort; study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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