Social and Psychosocial Determinants of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Health in the United States Population

• Published in: Circulation (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 147; no. 3; pp. 190 - 200
• Main Authors: Shah, Nilay S., Huang, Xiaoning, Petito, Lucia C., Bancks, Michael P., Ning, Hongyan, Cameron, Natalie A., Kershaw, Kiarri N., Kandula, Namratha R., Carnethon, Mercedes R., Lloyd-Jones, Donald M., Khan, Sadiya S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 17.01.2023
• Subjects: Adult; Diet; Ethnicity; Female; Hispanic or Latino; Humans; Male; Nutrition Surveys; Racial Groups; United States - epidemiology; Young Adult; United States; psychosocial factors; ethnicity; social factors; cardiovascular health; racial groups

Social and psychosocial factors are associated with cardiovascular health (CVH). Our objective was to examine the contributions of individual-level social and psychosocial factors to racial and ethnic differences in population CVH in the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys) 201...