The influence of early conditions on health status among elderly Puerto Ricans

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5847729
AutoresAlberto Palloni (0000-0002-2263-2207, University of Wisconsin), Mary Mceniry (0000-0003-2636-0250, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Ana Luisa Dávila (University of Puerto Rico), Alberto García Gurucharri (University of Puerto Rico)
Año2005
Volumen52
Número3-4
Páginas132-163
Fecha de publicación2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Biology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-766X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19485565.2005.9989106
PMID17619608
OpenAlexW2019788020
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas45

The demographic origins of aging in Puerto Rican and other Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries may have important implications for the profile of health status and mortality of elderly people. For this article we tested a general conjecture about the relation between early childhood conditions and adult health status among Puerto Rican elderly using a rich data set recently collected through an island-wide survey (N = 4,293). We examined the association between markers of early nutritional status, self-reports of health and on socioeconomic conditions during early childhood, and the prevalence of 3 conditions during adult ages: obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Although we found that obesity and diabetes are associated with markers of early malnutrition, that heart disease is associated with early deprivations and selected early childhood conditions, the evidence we were able to tease out from the data provides only fragile support for the conjecture

Puerto rican · Birth, Development, and Health · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet