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The differential impact of subjective and objective aspects of social engagement on cardiovascular risk factors

BACKGROUND: This article provides new insights into the impact of social engagement on CVD risk factors in older adults. We hypothesized that objective (social participation, social ties and marital status) and subjective (emotional support) aspects of social engagement are independently associated...

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Autores principales: Kamiya, Yumiko, Whelan, Brendan, Timonen, Virpi, Kenny, Rose Anne
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21044327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-10-81
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author Kamiya, Yumiko
Whelan, Brendan
Timonen, Virpi
Kenny, Rose Anne
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description BACKGROUND: This article provides new insights into the impact of social engagement on CVD risk factors in older adults. We hypothesized that objective (social participation, social ties and marital status) and subjective (emotional support) aspects of social engagement are independently associated with objective measures of cardiovascular risk. METHODS: Data from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) were analyzed. The effects of social participation, social ties, marital status, and emotional support on hypertension, obesity, high sensitivity C-reactive protein, and fibrinogen were estimated by logistic regression controlling for age, sex, education, physical function, depression, cardiovascular disease, other chronic diseases, physical activity, and smoking. RESULTS: Social participation is a consistent predictor of low risk for four risk factors, even after controlling for a wide range of covariates. Being married is associated with lower risk for hypertension. Social ties and emotional support are not significantly associated with any of the cardiovascular risk factors. CONCLUSION: Our analysis suggests that participation in social activities has a stronger association with CV risk factors than marital status, social ties or emotional support. Different forms of social engagement may therefore have different implications for the biological risk factors involved.
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spelling pubmed-29877812010-11-19 The differential impact of subjective and objective aspects of social engagement on cardiovascular risk factors Kamiya, Yumiko Whelan, Brendan Timonen, Virpi Kenny, Rose Anne BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: This article provides new insights into the impact of social engagement on CVD risk factors in older adults. We hypothesized that objective (social participation, social ties and marital status) and subjective (emotional support) aspects of social engagement are independently associated with objective measures of cardiovascular risk. METHODS: Data from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) were analyzed. The effects of social participation, social ties, marital status, and emotional support on hypertension, obesity, high sensitivity C-reactive protein, and fibrinogen were estimated by logistic regression controlling for age, sex, education, physical function, depression, cardiovascular disease, other chronic diseases, physical activity, and smoking. RESULTS: Social participation is a consistent predictor of low risk for four risk factors, even after controlling for a wide range of covariates. Being married is associated with lower risk for hypertension. Social ties and emotional support are not significantly associated with any of the cardiovascular risk factors. CONCLUSION: Our analysis suggests that participation in social activities has a stronger association with CV risk factors than marital status, social ties or emotional support. Different forms of social engagement may therefore have different implications for the biological risk factors involved. BioMed Central 2010-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2987781/ /pubmed/21044327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-10-81 Text en Copyright ©2010 Kamiya et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short The differential impact of subjective and objective aspects of social engagement on cardiovascular risk factors
title_sort differential impact of subjective and objective aspects of social engagement on cardiovascular risk factors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21044327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-10-81
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