{"id":4256,"date":"2023-09-06T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/health-studies\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:35:04","slug":"neighborhood-socioeconomic-position-living-arrangements-and-cardiometabolic-disease-among-older-puerto-ricans-an-examination-using-prehco-2002-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/2023\/09\/06\/neighborhood-socioeconomic-position-living-arrangements-and-cardiometabolic-disease-among-older-puerto-ricans-an-examination-using-prehco-2002-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood socioeconomic position, living arrangements, and cardiometabolic disease among older Puerto Ricans: An examination using PREHCO 2002\u20132007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Nekehia Quashie and a team of US and Puerto Rico based researchers recently published a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0289170\">study&nbsp; <\/a>-Neighborhood socioeconomic position, living arrangements and cardiometabolic disease among older Puerto Ricans: An examination using PREHCO 2002-2007. The study showed that living in a socioeconomically advantaged neighborhood was associated with a lower risk of having a cardiometabolic condition possibly reflecting better healthcare access. Also, older adults living alone and those living with children in relatively socioeconomically advantaged neighborhoods had a lower risk of having and developing a cardiometabolic condition. These findings suggest that household contexts are more salient than neighborhoods for older adults\u2019 health in Puerto Rico. Furthermore, living in higher-quality environments,&nbsp; alone or with children may be health protective.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nekehia Quashie and a team of US and Puerto Rico based researchers recently published a study&nbsp; -Neighborhood socioeconomic position, living arrangements and cardiometabolic disease among older Puerto Ricans: An examination using PREHCO 2002-2007. The study showed that living in a socioeconomically advantaged neighborhood was associated with a lower risk of having a cardiometabolic condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4700,"featured_media":4128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}