Socioeconomic Status and Longitudinal Lung Function of Healthy Mexican Children

David Martínez-Briseño, Rosario Fernández-Plata, Laura Gochicoa-Rangel, Luis Torre-Bouscoulet, Rosalba Rojas-Martínez, Laura Mendoza-Alvarado, Cecilia García-Sancho and Rogelio Pérez-Padilla

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-12

Abstract: Introduction: Our aim was to estimate the longitudinal effect of Socioeconomic status (SES) on lung function growth of Mexican children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: A cohort of Mexican children in third grade of primary school was followed with spirometry twice a year for 6 years through secondary school. Multilevel mixed-effects lineal models were fitted for the spirometric variables of 2,641 respiratory-healthy Mexican children. Monthly family income (in 2002 U.S. dollars [USD]) and parents’ years completed at school were used as proxies of SES. Results: Individuals with higher SES tended to have greater height for age, and smaller sitting height/standing height and crude lung function. For each 1-year increase of parents’ schooling, Forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV1) and Forced vital capacity (FVC) increased 8.5 (0.4%) and 10.6 mL (0.4%), respectively (p

Date: 2015
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