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{"title":"Cardiometabolic health in adolescence and its association with educational outcomes","authors":"P. Correa-Burrows, E. Blanco, S. Gahagan, R. Burrows","doi":"10.1136/jech-2019-212256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212256","url":null,"abstract":"Aim To explore the association of selected cardiometabolic biomarkers and metabolic syndrome (MetS) with educational outcomes in adolescents from Chile. Methods Of 678 participants, 632 (52% males) met criteria for the study. At 16 years, waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure, triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein and glucose were measured. A continuous cardiometabolic risk score (zMetS) using indicators of obesity, lipids, glucose and blood pressure was computed, with lower values denoting a healthier cardiometabolic profile. MetS was diagnosed with the International Diabetes Federation/American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute joint criteria. Data on high school (HS) graduation, grade point average (GPA), college examination rates and college test scores were collected. Data were analysed controlling for sociodemographic, lifestyle and educational confounders. Result zMetS, WC, TG and homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance at 16 years were negatively and significantly associated with the odds of completing HS and taking college exams. Notably, for a one-unit increase in zMetS, we found 52% (OR: 0.48, 95% CI 0.227 to 0.98) and 39% (OR: 0.61, 95% CI 0.28 to 0.93) reduction in the odds of HS completion and taking college exams, respectively. The odds of HS completion and taking college exams in participants with MetS were 37% (95% CI 0.14 to 0.98) and 33% (95% CI 0.15 to 0.79) that of participants with no cardiometabolic risk factors. Compared with adolescents with no risk factors, those with MetS had lower GPA (515 vs 461 points; p=0.002; Cohen’s d=0.55). Adolescents having the MetS had significantly lower odds of passing the mathematics exam for college compared with peers with no cardiometabolic risk factors (OR: 0.49; 95% CI 0.16 to 0.95). Conclusion In Chilean adolescents, cardiometabolic health was associated with educational outcomes.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"14 1","pages":"1071 - 1077"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90362237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus in rural areas of the USA","authors":"M. Rogers","doi":"10.1136/jech-2019-212693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212693","url":null,"abstract":"Background In the USA, the epidemiologic features of type 1 diabetes are not well-defined across all 50 states. However, the advent of large nationwide insurance databases enables the investigation of where type 1 diabetes cases occur throughout the country. Methods An integrated database from a large nationwide health insurer in the USA (Clinformatics Data Mart Database) was used, from 2001 to 2017. The database contained longitudinal information on approximately 77 million people. Results The incidence of type 1 diabetes was greatest in areas of low population density across the 50 states. Individuals in the lowest population density areas had rates that were 2.28 times (95% CI 2.08 to 2.50) that of persons living in high-density areas. This association was consistent across various measures of rural status (p<0.001 for population density; p<0.001 for per cent rural as defined by the US Census Bureau; p=0.026 for farmland). The association between rural areas and the incidence of type 1 diabetes was evident across all four general regions of the USA. Conclusions The predilection of type 1 diabetes in rural areas provides clues to potential factors associated with the onset of this autoimmune disease.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"43 4 1","pages":"1136 - 1138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80093981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Undiagnosed and untreated chronic kidney disease and its impact on renal outcomes in the Japanese middle-aged general population","authors":"Yukari Yamada, T. Ikenoue, Yoshiyuki Saito, S. Fukuma","doi":"10.1136/jech-2019-212858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212858","url":null,"abstract":"Background The effectiveness of identifying and monitoring early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) is not fully recognised. This study quantified people with undiagnosed CKD among the middle-aged Japanese population and clarified potential risks of untreated CKD. Methods We included 71 233 individuals who underwent annual health check-ups (AHC) in 2014 for both baseline and follow-up proteinuria and serum creatine measurements. CKD was identified by AHC data as proteinuria or estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 mL/min/1.73 m2. We differentiated undiagnosed from diagnosed CKD using the medical claims database. In undiagnosed CKD, we assessed risk differences for disease progression, defined as an eGFR decline slope >3 mL/min/1.73 m2/year or proteinuria incidence over 3 years, between those who visited a physician for CKD treatment within 6 months after AHC and those who did not. Results CKD prevalence was 5.7% (5.2% undiagnosed and 0.5% diagnosed). Only 2.1% of the patients with undiagnosed CKD visited a physician for CKD treatment within 6 months after AHC. Between-group risk differences in instrumental variable adjustment models showed that those left untreated progressed to kidney diseases 16.3% more often than those who visited physicians for CKD treatment. Conclusion CKD was undiagnosed in 5.2% of the middle-aged general population. Only a few people visited physicians for CKD treatment. Visiting physicians for CKD treatment during the first 6 months after screening may be associated with a lower risk of kidney disease progression.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"58 1","pages":"1122 - 1127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84157646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Right-wing populism and self-rated health in Europe: a multilevel analysis","authors":"I. Backhaus, S. Kino, G. La Torre, I. Kawachi","doi":"10.1136/jech-2018-211995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211995","url":null,"abstract":"Background Individuals who identify as politically conservative have been previously shown to report better self-rated health compared with liberals. We tested whether this association still holds for right-wing populists, which are gaining strength as a political force in Europe in recent decades. Methods We analysed data from 24 617 respondents nested within 18 European countries included in the 2016 European Social Survey. Multilevel analyses were conducted to assess the association between political ideology and self-rated health, adjusting for other individual covariates (happiness and social capital). Results Individuals who voted for right-wing populist parties were 43% more likely to report fair/poor health compared with traditional conservatives (OR=1.43, 95% CI 1.23 to 1.67). The association was attenuated (OR=1.21, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.42) after controlling for additional individual-level variables, including happiness and access to social capital. Higher levels of social capital (informal networks, OR=0.40, 95% CI 0.29 to 0.56; trust, OR=0.82, 95% CI 0.74 to 0.92) and happiness (OR=0.18, 95% CI 0.15 to 0.22) were protectively correlated with fair/poor self-rated health. Conclusions Individuals voting for right-wing populist parties report worse health compared with conservatives. It remains unclear whether ideology is just a marker for health-related practices, or whether the values and beliefs associated with a particular brand of ideology lead to worse health.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"152 1","pages":"1116 - 1121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88872368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a more reliable assessment of health risks associated with the population exposure to bisphenols","authors":"J. Klánová, R. Barouki","doi":"10.1136/jech-2019-213213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-213213","url":null,"abstract":"The exposure of populations to a wide range of chemicals through their outdoor and indoor environments, food, water and consumer products is a matter of growing concern for the public and health authorities. Chemical risk governance is complicated by a lack of knowledge on the composition of chemical mixtures to which populations are exposed, their spatial variability and major drivers of their toxicity, as well as long-term changes in the chemical exposures with respect to age, gender and occupation. A significant attention has been previously given to persistent pollutants or endocrine disrupting chemicals but there are important knowledge gaps related to compounds for which the concern has only recently emerged due to their increasing environmental concentrations, evidence of human exposures or alerting toxicological data. A need for the development of new approaches to the assessment of human health risks accounting for exposures to emerging chemicals and complex chemical mixtures can be demonstrated on the paper on urinary bisphenol A (BPA) and dyslipidaemia.1 The meta-analysis of National …","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"67 1","pages":"988 - 989"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73994266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trends in the association of different forms of precarious employment and self-rated health in Germany. An analysis with the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1995 and 2015","authors":"T. Pförtner, H. Pfaff, K. Hower","doi":"10.1136/jech-2018-211933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211933","url":null,"abstract":"Background Precarious employment has increased in Germany by means of labour market flexibilisation throughout the 1990s and 2000s. In this study, trends in the association of self-rated health (SRH) with different dimensions of precarious employment by gender in Germany between 1995 and 2015 were assessed considering different periods of labour market reforms and the Great Recession. Methods Analyses were conducted using the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1995 to 2015. All employed individuals aged 18–67 years and living in private households were considered for analysis to examine the risks of poor SRH by low wage, working poverty, non-standard working time arrangements and perceived job insecurity by gender. Predicted probabilities, adjusted risk ratio (ARR), adjusted risk difference (ARD) and trends were examined using pooled interval logistic regression with individual-clustered standard errors. Results Relative and absolute differences in SRH rose significantly over time by perceived job insecurity for men, but not for women. Working poverty appeared to be significantly associated with SRH in the Great Recession and the post-Recession period for both gender. Non-standard working time arrangements were not significantly associated with SRH for both gender, and low wage appeared to be significantly associated with SRH only for men in the post-Recession period. Conclusions The results highlighted the relevance of labour market reforms of deregulation and flexibilisation in Germany to differences in SRH by specific forms of precarious employment and gender differences in the impact of labour market reforms on precarious employment and health.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"370 1","pages":"1002 - 1011"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84924598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive tips for changing mindsets: improving policies to protect health and environment","authors":"S. Riva","doi":"10.1136/jech-2018-210465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-210465","url":null,"abstract":"It is difficult enough to persuade people to adopt a healthy lifestyle, such as eating well, doing physical exercise or avoiding smoking— all of which have a direct impact on their lives ; however, it is an even greater challenge to persuade them to take significant actions for the future benefit of others. One such challenge is related to the protection of our environment.\u0000\u0000Unfortunately, people consider environmental protection as a separate domain to health protection, but it is not: the environment can affect human health, and environmental hazards increase the risk of diseases with adverse consequences for the entire world.1\u0000\u0000Various measures are proposed by national and international organisations, agencies and public institutions with the objective of regulating adequate action from citizens regarding the protection of their environment. Generally, economic actions such as taxes, subventions, fee structures and laws are, in many countries, the most frequently adopted measures.2\u0000\u0000Recently, however, psychology (particularly cognitive psychology) and behavioural sciences have been involved in a search for solutions and suggestions for improved policies and directives.3 There is a growing awareness that in different fields of human life,4 5 personal behaviours and attitudes can bring about change. With regard to green behaviour, current literature highlights how, in many situations, environmental protection may also be influenced by people’s behaviours and individual choices. Reflecting this, psychology and behavioural sciences can provide specific insight in examining individual people’s actions and behaviours to support the resolution of environmental issues.\u0000\u0000Their contribution is often called ‘soft’,6 because it is based on techniques and methods that aim to adapt and modify people’s attitudes and perceptions, rather than impose a radical modification through taxes, economical actions or other ‘hard’ mandatory policies (directed by legislation and regulatory monitoring). There are a number of soft techniques. In …","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"43 1","pages":"985 - 987"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86662529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experience of maternal and paternal adversities in childhood as determinants of self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood","authors":"Joonas Pitkänen, H. Remes, Mikko Aaltonen, P. Martikainen","doi":"10.1136/jech-2019-212689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212689","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Previous studies suggest that childhood experience of parental adversities increases the risk of subsequent offspring self-harm, but studies on distinct paternal and maternal characteristics are few and it remains unclear how these interact with childhood social position. The study aims to assess whether paternal and maternal adversities have different associations with offspring self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood. Interaction by offspring gender and childhood income are investigated, as well as cumulative effects of multiple adversities. Methods The study uses administrative register data on a 20% random sample of Finnish households with children aged 0–14 years in 2000. We follow children born in 1986–1998 (n=155 855) from their 13th birthday until 2011. Parental substance abuse, psychiatric disorders, criminality and hospitalisations due to interpersonal violence or self-harm are used to predict offspring self-harm with Cox proportional hazards models. Results The results show a clear increase in the risk of self-harm among those exposed to maternal or paternal adversities with HRs between 1.5 and 5.4 among boys and 1.7 and 3.9 among girls. The excess risks hold for every measure of maternal and paternal adversities after adjusting for childhood income and parental education. Evidence was found suggesting that low income, accumulation of adversity and female gender may exacerbate the consequences of adversities. Conclusions Our findings suggest that both parents’ adversities increase the risk of self-harm and that multiple experiences of parental adversities in childhood are especially harmful, regardless of parent gender. Higher levels of childhood income can protect from the negative consequences of adverse experiences.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"1040 - 1046"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84883265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effort–reward imbalance and long-term benzodiazepine use: longitudinal findings from the CONSTANCES cohort","authors":"G. Airagnes, C. Lemogne, S. Kab, N. Hoertel, M. Goldberg, M. Wahrendorf, J. Siegrist, Y. Roquelaure, F. Limosin, M. Zins","doi":"10.1136/jech-2019-212703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212703","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives To examine the association between effort–reward imbalance and incident long-term benzodiazepine use (LTBU). Methods We included 31 077 employed participants enrolled in the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort between 2012 and 2014 who had not undergone LTBU in the 2 years before enrolment. LTBU was examined using drug reimbursement administrative databases. The effort–reward imbalance was calculated in quartiles. We computed ORs (95% CIs) for LTBU according to effort–reward imbalance over a 2-year follow-up period. We adjusted for age, gender, education, occupational grade, income, marital status, tobacco smoking, risk of alcohol use disorder, depressive symptoms and self-rated health. Results Over the 2-year follow-up, 294 (0.9%) participants experienced incident LTBU. In the univariable analysis, effort–reward imbalance was associated with subsequent LTBU with ORs of 1.79 (95% CI 1.23 to 2.62) and 2.73 (95% CI 1.89 to 3.95) for the third and fourth quartiles, respectively, compared with the first quartile. There was no interaction between effort–reward imbalance and any of the considered variables other than tobacco smoking (p=0.033). The association remained significant in both smokers and non-smokers, with higher odds for smokers (p=0.031). In the fully adjusted model, the association remained significant for the third and fourth quartiles, with ORs of 1.74 (95% CI 1.17 to 2.57) and 2.18 (95% CI 1.50 to 3.16), respectively. These associations were dose dependent (p for trend <0.001). Conclusions Effort–reward imbalance was linked with incident LTBU over a 2-year follow-up period after adjustment for sociodemographic and health-related factors. Thus, screening and prevention of the risk of LTBU should be systematised among individuals experiencing effort–reward imbalance, with special attention paid to smokers.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"1001 - 993"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82316799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Residence change during the first trimester of pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes","authors":"Julia C. Bond, Amanda Mancenido, Divya M Patil, Seth Rowley, J. Goldberg, A. Littman","doi":"10.1136/jech-2018-211937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211937","url":null,"abstract":"Background There are few published studies evaluating the impact of perinatal residence change on infant outcomes and whether these associations differ by socioeconomic status. Methods We conducted a population-based cohort study using Washington State birth certificate data from 2007 to 2014 to assess whether women who moved during the first trimester of pregnancy (n=28 011) had a higher risk of low birth weight, preterm birth and small for gestational age than women who did not move during the first trimester (n=112 367). ‘Non-first-trimester movers’ were frequency matched 4:1 to movers by year. We used generalised linear models to calculate risk ratios and risk differences adjusted for maternal age, race, marital status, parity, education, smoking, income and insurance payer for the birth. We also stratified analyses by variables related to socioeconomic status to see whether associations differed across socioeconomic strata. Results Moving in the first trimester was associated with an increased risk of low birth weight (6.4% vs 4.5%, adjusted risk ratio 1.37 (95% CI 1.29 to 1.45)) and preterm birth (9.1% vs 6.4%, adjusted risk ratio 1.42 (95% CI 1.36 to 1.49)) and a slight increased risk of small for gestational age (9.8% vs 8.7%, adjusted risk ratio 1.09 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.09)). Residence change was associated with low birth weight and preterm birth in all socioeconomic strata. Conclusion Moving during the first trimester of pregnancy may be a risk factor for adverse birth outcomes in US women. Healthcare providers may want to consider screening for plans to move and offering support.","PeriodicalId":15778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health","volume":"95 1","pages":"913 - 919"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84758654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}