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Education, psychosocial resources, and metabolic syndrome variables in Latinas

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Annals of Behavioral Medicine

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Background: Individuals with low socioeconomic position (SEP) and Latino ethnicity are at high risk for the metabolic syndrome. In part, this may reflect that these populations benefit from fewer resilient resources to manage stressful environments, resulting in accentuated psychological and physiological costs (1).Purpose: We examined the direct effects of educational attainment (an indicator of SEP) and psychosocial resources on metabolic syndrome variables, and tested indirect effects of education, via resources.Methods: Participants were 145 middle-aged (M=47.07 years) Latinas recruited from health clinics along the California—Mexico border. Women completed assessments of demographics and resilient resources; metabolic syndrome variables were measured (blood pressure [BP], waist circumference [WC]) or abstracted from medical charts (lipids, glucose).Results: Women with less education reported fewer psychosocial resources (ΔR2=.14, p<.0001) and showed a higher risk profile on measures of BP, WC, and plasma glucose (3–7% of variance explained, all ps<.05), relative to those with more education. Resources independently predicted lower WCs (ΔR2=.07, p<.05). Education exerted an indirect effect (p<.05) through resources on WC, a core factor underlying the metabolic syndrome.Conclusions: Additional research is warranted to further explore the roles of resilient resources in relationships among SEP, metabolic risk factors, and chronic disease processes.

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Portions of this research were presented at the 2005 meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. The study was supported by a mini-grant from San Diego State University’s Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (Grant 1 R24 MH065515 from the National Institutes of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health [NIH]). Drs. Gallo and Talavera were supported by National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Grant 1 R01 HL081604 during preparation of this article. In addition, Dr. Talavera was supported grant P60 MD00220, from the San Diego EXPORT Center, National Center of Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH.

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Gallo, L.C., de los Monteros, K.E., Ferent, V. et al. Education, psychosocial resources, and metabolic syndrome variables in Latinas. ann. behav. med. 34, 14–25 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02879917

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