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| Childhood socioeconomic status predicts physical functioning a half century later | | Author(s) | Jack M Guralnik, Suzanne Butterworth, Michael E J Wadsworth |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 61A, no 7, July 2006 |
| Pages | pp 694-701 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Socio-economic groups ; Middle aged ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Longitudinal surveys ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | The social environment in which a child grows up affects health outcomes at all stages of life. The Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (MRC NSHD) - the British 1946 birth cohort - was prospectively evaluated with periodic examinations from birth to age 53, when physical performance tests assessing strength, balance and rising from a chair were administered. Early childhood socioeconomic factors were examined as predictors of low, middle or high function at midlife. The hypothesis was tested that additional behavioural risk factors would explain childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and midlife physical function associations. Multiple measures of childhood deprivation were associated with midlife functions, but in multivariate analyses only father's occupation was associated with low function for manual occupation, and only mother's education was associated with high function. Early adulthood behavioural risk factors middle age SES and disease status only modestly attenuated the relationship between father's occupation and low function and had no impact on the relationship of mother's education with high function. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504237 A |
| Classmark | T4: SE: CA: C4: 3J: 3KB |
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