M E Dupre
Biographic Data
| ID | 26809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M E Dupre |
| GIVEN NAMES | M E |
| FAMILY NAME | Dupre |
| SIGNATURE | DUPRE M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0976-4715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Everyday discrimination and age-related trajectories of blood pressure among Black and White middle-aged and older adults
Birth in the U.S. Plantation South and Racial Differences in all-cause mortality in later life
The impact of hearing loss on trajectories of depressive symptoms in married couples
Self-reported hearing loss, hearing aid use, and cognitive function among U.S. older adults
There has been increasing attention to the role of hearing loss as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. However, more nationally-representative studies are needed to understand the co-occurring changes in hearing loss and cognitive function in older adults over time, and how hearing aid use might influence this association. The purpose of this report is to examine how age-related changes in hearing l…
Major Trends in Population Growth Around the World
The world's population continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace. The decelerating growth is mainly attributable to fertility declines in a growing number of countries. However, there are substantial variations in the future trends of populations across regions and countries, with sub-Saharan African countries being projected to have most of the increase. Population momentum plays an important role in determining the future population growth in …
The Cumulative Impact of Chronic Stressors on Risks of Myocardial Infarction in US Older Adults
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the association between cumulative exposure to chronic stressors and the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) in US older adults. METHODS: Nationally representative prospective cohort data of adults 45 years and older (n = 15,109) were used to investigate the association between the cumulative number of chronic stressors and the incidence of MI in US older adults. Proportional hazards models adjusted …
Individual-level factors attributable to urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China
The urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China was largely attributable to differences in individual socioeconomic resources (i.e., education, income, and access to healthcare) regardless of gender and age group
Urban-rural differences in the association between access to healthcare and health outcomes among older adults in China
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that inadequate access to healthcare is associated with lower levels of health and well-being in older adults. Studies have also shown significant urban-rural differences in access to healthcare in developing countries such as China. However, there is limited evidence of whether the association between access to healthcare and health outcomes differs by urban-rural residence at older ages in China. METHODS: Four wav…
Changes in perceived uselessness and risks for mortality: Evidence from a National sample of older adults in China
Persistently high and moderate levels of perceived uselessness are associated with significant increases in mortality risk. These findings have important implications for promoting successful aging in China
Assessments of mortality at oldest-old ages by province in China's 2000 and 2010 censuses
This study examined the possible underestimation and age-trajectories of mortality at oldest-old ages in China’s 2000 and 2010 censuses. By linking logit-transformed conditional probabilities of dying from 13 countries with the highest data quality in the world, this study found that many Chinese provinces had underestimations of mortality at oldest-old ages when a relatively lenient criterion was applied. When a relatively strict criterion was a…
Race, Marital History, and Risks for Stroke in US Older Adults
Stroke is among the leading causes of disability and death in the United States, and racial differences are greater for stroke than for all other major chronic diseases. Considering the equally sizeable racial disparities in marital life and associated risks across adulthood, the current study hypothesizes that black–white differences in marital history play an important role in the large racial inequalities in the incidence of stroke. The major …
Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina
Objectives. To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. Methods. We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healthy Places North Carolina counties from 2014 to assess the leadership attributes (awareness, attitudes, and capacity) and network connections of local actors by their organizational sector. Resul…
Marital history and survival after a heart attack
Studying Disability Trends in Aging Populations
Health Trajectories of Women in China: The Role of Parental Caregiving
The findings demonstrate the subjective health consequences of caregiving for women in China and provide new evidence to support the life course processes of wear-and-tear and role adaptation
Socioeconomic Status and the Black–White Mortality Crossover
Objectives. We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black–White mortality crossover (when elevated age–specific mortality rates invert). Methods. We used panel data from the North Carolina Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly to test the main and interactive effects of SES on mortality. Results. Discrete-time hazard …
Psychological well-being of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest old in China: The role of children
Racial Differences in Depression Trajectories among Older Women: Socioeconomic, Family, and Health Influences
Despite recent increases in life course research on mental illness, important questions remain about the social patterning of, and explanations for, depression trajectories among women in later life. The authors investigate competing theoretical frameworks for the age patterning of depressive symptoms and the physical health, socioeconomic, and family mechanisms differentiating black and white women. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surv…
Marital Trajectories and Mortality Among US Adults
More than a century of empirical evidence links marital status to mortality. However, the hazards of dying associated with long-term marital trajectories and contributing risk factors are largely unknown. The authors used 1992-2006 prospective data from a cohort of US adults to investigate the impact of current marital status, marriage timing, divorce and widow transitions, and marital durations on mortality. Multivariate hazard ratios were signi…
Frailty and Mortality Among Chinese at Advanced Ages
Age, sex, ethnicity, urban-rural residence, economic condition, religious involvement, and daily exercise are significantly associated with levels of frailty. Hazard analyses further reveal that the FI is a robust predictor of mortality at advanced ages and that the relationship between frailty and mortality is independent of various covariates. Discussion The measurement and analysis of frailty have broad implications for public health initiativ…
Changing health status and health expectancies among older adults in China: Gender differences from 1992 to 2002
Structure and Stress: Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms across Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Previous research into the social distribution of early life depression has yielded inconsistent results regarding subgroup differences in depression levels and in the etiology of these differences. Using latent curve models and data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study investigates gender and racial/ethnic disparities in early life depressive symptoms and the explanatory roles of stress and socioeconomic status (…
Predictors of Longevity: Evidence From the Oldest Old in China
Objectives. We investigated the characteristics of the oldest old in China and examined whether the factors associated with longevity varied with advanced age. Methods. Drawing from the largest nationally representative longitudinal sample of oldest-old adults, we stratified descriptive statistics separately by gender and urban–rural residence and then used ordered logit models to examine the multivariate factors associated with increasing age-gr…
Educational differences in health risks and illness over the life course: A test of cumulative disadvantage theory
Characteristics of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest-old in China
Educational Differences in Age-Related Patterns of Disease: Reconsidering the Cumulative Disadvantage and Age-As-Leveler Hypotheses
Some studies suggest that the relationship between education and health strengthens with age (cumulative disadvantage hypothesis), while other studies find that it weakens (age-as-leveler hypothesis). This research addresses this inconsistency by differentiating individual-level changes in health from those occurring at the aggregate level due to selective mortality. Using retrospective and prospective data from a nationally representative sample…
Structure and Stress: Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms across Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Previous research into the social distribution of early life depression has yielded inconsistent results regarding subgroup differences in depression levels and in the etiology of these differences. Using latent curve models and data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study investigates gender and racial/ethnic disparities in early life depressive symptoms and the explanatory roles of stress and socioeconomic status (…
Disaggregating the Effects of Marital Trajectories on Health
Recent studies linking marital status and health increasingly focus on marital trajectories to examine the relationship from a life course perspective. However, research has been slow to bridge the theoretical concept of a marital trajectory with its measurement. This study uses retrospective and prospective data to model the age-dependent effects of marital sequences, timing, transitions, and durations on physical health. Results indicate that m…
Characteristics of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest-old in China
Educational differences in health risks and illness over the life course: A test of cumulative disadvantage theory
Changing health status and health expectancies among older adults in China: Gender differences from 1992 to 2002
Religious attendance and mortality: Implications for the black-white mortality crossover
This study investigates the relationships among religious attendance, mortality, and the black-white mortality crossover. We build on prior research by examining the link between attendance and mortality while testing whether religious involvement captures an important source of population heterogeneity that contributes to a crossover. Using data from the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, we find a strong negative …
Frailty and Mortality Among Chinese at Advanced Ages
Age, sex, ethnicity, urban-rural residence, economic condition, religious involvement, and daily exercise are significantly associated with levels of frailty. Hazard analyses further reveal that the FI is a robust predictor of mortality at advanced ages and that the relationship between frailty and mortality is independent of various covariates. Discussion The measurement and analysis of frailty have broad implications for public health initiativ…
Psychological well-being of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest old in China: The role of children
Marital history and survival after a heart attack
Racial Differences in Depression Trajectories among Older Women: Socioeconomic, Family, and Health Influences
Despite recent increases in life course research on mental illness, important questions remain about the social patterning of, and explanations for, depression trajectories among women in later life. The authors investigate competing theoretical frameworks for the age patterning of depressive symptoms and the physical health, socioeconomic, and family mechanisms differentiating black and white women. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surv…
Health Trajectories of Women in China: The Role of Parental Caregiving
The findings demonstrate the subjective health consequences of caregiving for women in China and provide new evidence to support the life course processes of wear-and-tear and role adaptation
Socioeconomic Status and the Black–White Mortality Crossover
Objectives. We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black–White mortality crossover (when elevated age–specific mortality rates invert). Methods. We used panel data from the North Carolina Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly to test the main and interactive effects of SES on mortality. Results. Discrete-time hazard …
Predictors of Longevity: Evidence From the Oldest Old in China
Objectives. We investigated the characteristics of the oldest old in China and examined whether the factors associated with longevity varied with advanced age. Methods. Drawing from the largest nationally representative longitudinal sample of oldest-old adults, we stratified descriptive statistics separately by gender and urban–rural residence and then used ordered logit models to examine the multivariate factors associated with increasing age-gr…
Birth in the U.S. Plantation South and Racial Differences in all-cause mortality in later life
The impact of hearing loss on trajectories of depressive symptoms in married couples
Assessments of mortality at oldest-old ages by province in China's 2000 and 2010 censuses
This study examined the possible underestimation and age-trajectories of mortality at oldest-old ages in China’s 2000 and 2010 censuses. By linking logit-transformed conditional probabilities of dying from 13 countries with the highest data quality in the world, this study found that many Chinese provinces had underestimations of mortality at oldest-old ages when a relatively lenient criterion was applied. When a relatively strict criterion was a…
Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina
Objectives. To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. Methods. We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healthy Places North Carolina counties from 2014 to assess the leadership attributes (awareness, attitudes, and capacity) and network connections of local actors by their organizational sector. Resul…
Studying Disability Trends in Aging Populations
Religious attendance and mortality: Implications for the black-white mortality crossover
This study investigates the relationships among religious attendance, mortality, and the black-white mortality crossover. We build on prior research by examining the link between attendance and mortality while testing whether religious involvement captures an important source of population heterogeneity that contributes to a crossover. Using data from the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, we find a strong negative …
Characteristics of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest-old in China
Disaggregating the Effects of Marital Trajectories on Health
Recent studies linking marital status and health increasingly focus on marital trajectories to examine the relationship from a life course perspective. However, research has been slow to bridge the theoretical concept of a marital trajectory with its measurement. This study uses retrospective and prospective data to model the age-dependent effects of marital sequences, timing, transitions, and durations on physical health. Results indicate that m…
Educational Differences in Age-Related Patterns of Disease: Reconsidering the Cumulative Disadvantage and Age-As-Leveler Hypotheses
Some studies suggest that the relationship between education and health strengthens with age (cumulative disadvantage hypothesis), while other studies find that it weakens (age-as-leveler hypothesis). This research addresses this inconsistency by differentiating individual-level changes in health from those occurring at the aggregate level due to selective mortality. Using retrospective and prospective data from a nationally representative sample…
Predictors of Longevity: Evidence From the Oldest Old in China
Objectives. We investigated the characteristics of the oldest old in China and examined whether the factors associated with longevity varied with advanced age. Methods. Drawing from the largest nationally representative longitudinal sample of oldest-old adults, we stratified descriptive statistics separately by gender and urban–rural residence and then used ordered logit models to examine the multivariate factors associated with increasing age-gr…
Educational differences in health risks and illness over the life course: A test of cumulative disadvantage theory
Marital Trajectories and Mortality Among US Adults
More than a century of empirical evidence links marital status to mortality. However, the hazards of dying associated with long-term marital trajectories and contributing risk factors are largely unknown. The authors used 1992-2006 prospective data from a cohort of US adults to investigate the impact of current marital status, marriage timing, divorce and widow transitions, and marital durations on mortality. Multivariate hazard ratios were signi…
Frailty and Mortality Among Chinese at Advanced Ages
Age, sex, ethnicity, urban-rural residence, economic condition, religious involvement, and daily exercise are significantly associated with levels of frailty. Hazard analyses further reveal that the FI is a robust predictor of mortality at advanced ages and that the relationship between frailty and mortality is independent of various covariates. Discussion The measurement and analysis of frailty have broad implications for public health initiativ…
Changing health status and health expectancies among older adults in China: Gender differences from 1992 to 2002
Structure and Stress: Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms across Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Previous research into the social distribution of early life depression has yielded inconsistent results regarding subgroup differences in depression levels and in the etiology of these differences. Using latent curve models and data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study investigates gender and racial/ethnic disparities in early life depressive symptoms and the explanatory roles of stress and socioeconomic status (…
Racial Differences in Depression Trajectories among Older Women: Socioeconomic, Family, and Health Influences
Despite recent increases in life course research on mental illness, important questions remain about the social patterning of, and explanations for, depression trajectories among women in later life. The authors investigate competing theoretical frameworks for the age patterning of depressive symptoms and the physical health, socioeconomic, and family mechanisms differentiating black and white women. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surv…
Socioeconomic Status and the Black–White Mortality Crossover
Objectives. We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black–White mortality crossover (when elevated age–specific mortality rates invert). Methods. We used panel data from the North Carolina Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly to test the main and interactive effects of SES on mortality. Results. Discrete-time hazard …
Psychological well-being of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest old in China: The role of children
Health Trajectories of Women in China: The Role of Parental Caregiving
The findings demonstrate the subjective health consequences of caregiving for women in China and provide new evidence to support the life course processes of wear-and-tear and role adaptation
Studying Disability Trends in Aging Populations
Race, Marital History, and Risks for Stroke in US Older Adults
Stroke is among the leading causes of disability and death in the United States, and racial differences are greater for stroke than for all other major chronic diseases. Considering the equally sizeable racial disparities in marital life and associated risks across adulthood, the current study hypothesizes that black–white differences in marital history play an important role in the large racial inequalities in the incidence of stroke. The major …
Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina
Objectives. To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. Methods. We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healthy Places North Carolina counties from 2014 to assess the leadership attributes (awareness, attitudes, and capacity) and network connections of local actors by their organizational sector. Resul…
Marital history and survival after a heart attack
Urban-rural differences in the association between access to healthcare and health outcomes among older adults in China
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that inadequate access to healthcare is associated with lower levels of health and well-being in older adults. Studies have also shown significant urban-rural differences in access to healthcare in developing countries such as China. However, there is limited evidence of whether the association between access to healthcare and health outcomes differs by urban-rural residence at older ages in China. METHODS: Four wav…
Changes in perceived uselessness and risks for mortality: Evidence from a National sample of older adults in China
Persistently high and moderate levels of perceived uselessness are associated with significant increases in mortality risk. These findings have important implications for promoting successful aging in China
Assessments of mortality at oldest-old ages by province in China's 2000 and 2010 censuses
This study examined the possible underestimation and age-trajectories of mortality at oldest-old ages in China’s 2000 and 2010 censuses. By linking logit-transformed conditional probabilities of dying from 13 countries with the highest data quality in the world, this study found that many Chinese provinces had underestimations of mortality at oldest-old ages when a relatively lenient criterion was applied. When a relatively strict criterion was a…
Individual-level factors attributable to urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China
The urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China was largely attributable to differences in individual socioeconomic resources (i.e., education, income, and access to healthcare) regardless of gender and age group
Major Trends in Population Growth Around the World
The world's population continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace. The decelerating growth is mainly attributable to fertility declines in a growing number of countries. However, there are substantial variations in the future trends of populations across regions and countries, with sub-Saharan African countries being projected to have most of the increase. Population momentum plays an important role in determining the future population growth in …
The Cumulative Impact of Chronic Stressors on Risks of Myocardial Infarction in US Older Adults
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the association between cumulative exposure to chronic stressors and the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) in US older adults. METHODS: Nationally representative prospective cohort data of adults 45 years and older (n = 15,109) were used to investigate the association between the cumulative number of chronic stressors and the incidence of MI in US older adults. Proportional hazards models adjusted …
Self-reported hearing loss, hearing aid use, and cognitive function among U.S. older adults
There has been increasing attention to the role of hearing loss as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. However, more nationally-representative studies are needed to understand the co-occurring changes in hearing loss and cognitive function in older adults over time, and how hearing aid use might influence this association. The purpose of this report is to examine how age-related changes in hearing l…
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