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. 2018 Feb 7:4:189-196.
doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.01.004. eCollection 2018 Apr.

Investigating the Early Life Determinants of Type-II Diabetes Using a Project Talent-Medicare Linked Data-set

Elizabeth Mokyr Horner  1 , Kiersten Strombotne  1 , Alison Huang  1 , Susan Lapham  1
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Investigating the Early Life Determinants of Type-II Diabetes Using a Project Talent-Medicare Linked Data-set

Elizabeth Mokyr Horner et al. SSM Popul Health. .

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Abstract

The increasing prevalence of Type II Diabetes (T2D) presents a serious health and financial public crisis. Our study examines the hypothesis that adolescents' perceptions of economic insecurity, along with absolute and relative socioeconomic status (SES), can contribute to T2D prevalence later in life. Project Talent (PT) Survey data, collected on high school students in 1960, have been linked to Medicare records from 2012, presenting a unique opportunity to examine measures gathered in adolescence and T2D prevalence later-in-life among a large, national, and diverse sample (n=88,849). Our results provide compelling evidence that real, perceived, and relative SES in adolescence have persistent impacts on later-in-life diabetes risk, even when controlling for possible confounders such as cognitive ability, conscientiousness, and early-adulthood educational attainment.

Keywords: diabetes; early-life predictors of disease; life-cycle; personality and cognitive ability; socioeconomic status.

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