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Biodemography: New approaches to understanding trends and differences in population health and mortality
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S41–S64.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Eileen Crimmins; Jung Ki Kim; Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn Abstract The incorporation of biological information in large population surveys has expanded demographic analysis to clarify the meaning of observed trends and differences in population health and mortality. Levels of measured biological risk...
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Preliminary evidence regarding the hypothesis that the sex ratio at sexual maturity may affect longevity in men
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 579–586.
Published: 01 August 2010
... mortality risks than those in an environment with lower sex ratios. Mate availability at sexual maturity may be linked via several biological and social mechanisms to long-term survival in men. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 Sexual Maturity Marriage Market Mate...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1815–1841.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in generating disparities in biological aging, with implications for understanding age patterns of morbidity and mortality risks. The coefficient estimate for Black × stress burden is only marginally significant for males in Model 5 but is not statistically significant in Model 6, the fully adjusted model...
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in Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation
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Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 2 Moderation effects: racialized differences in associations among socioeconomic status, stressors, and health. Estimates of moderation are based on results from online appendix Tables B3 and B4 . SRH = self-rated health. CBR = cumulative biological risk. FUNC = functional limitations. B
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in Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation
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Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 5 Percentage mediation of racial inequities by socioeconomic status and stressors (individually), using moderated mediation models. Estimates of mediation are based on results from Tables 2 and 3 . SRH = self-rated health. CBR = cumulative biological risk. FUNC = functional limitations
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Social, behavioral, and biological factors, and sex differences in mortality
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 555–578.
Published: 01 August 2010
... widens; and once we control for women’s greater propensity to visit with friends and relatives, attend religious services, and abstain from smoking, the sex gap in mortality narrows. Biological factors—including indicators of inflammation and cardiovascular risk—also inform sex differences in mortality...
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Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 675–705.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Fig. 2 Moderation effects: racialized differences in associations among socioeconomic status, stressors, and health. Estimates of moderation are based on results from online appendix Tables B3 and B4 . SRH = self-rated health. CBR = cumulative biological risk. FUNC = functional limitations. B...
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Do Daughters Really Cause Divorce? Stress, Pregnancy, and Family Composition
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1423–1449.
Published: 15 July 2014
... from 0 to 60; higher values indicate higher levels of depression risk. Depression is associated with biological stress (McEwen 2003 ; Rawdin et al. 2013 ). The mean CES-D score in our sample was 8.1, with a standard deviation of 8.2. Both measures were first asked of childless women in 1992...
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Brazil’s Missing Infants: Zika Risk Changes Reproductive Behavior
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1647–1680.
Published: 01 September 2020
... peaked months before residents learned about the epidemic and its relation to congenital anomalies. This spatiotemporal variation supports analysis of both biological effects of Zika infection on fertility and the effects of learning about Zika risk on reproductive behavior. Causal inference techniques...
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View articletitled, Brazil’s Missing Infants: Zika <span class="search-highlight">Risk</span> Changes Reproductive Behavior
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The effect of stepchildren on childbearing intentions and births
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 181–197.
Published: 01 February 2002
... negatively affect childbearing intentions and childbearing risks. Intentions to have a child are weakened by onés own previous biological children and the previous biological children of onés current spouse or partner. This effect varies by the parenting configuration of the couple and gender...
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Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2021–2049.
Published: 02 November 2015
.... 1973 ). Reproductive behaviors may lead to additional physiological changes that adversely affect a woman’s health. Pregnancy-related biological responses lead to increased risks for coronary heart disease and obesity later in life (Bastian et al. 2005 ; Lawlor et al. 2003 ). Short birth spacing...
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Consanguinity and Other Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1845–1871.
Published: 26 April 2013
... (Mensch et al. 2005 ). Yet, the institution of dowry has proven resilient and even resurgent in many parts of the world, particularly in South Asia (Anderson 2007 ; Caldwell et al. 1983 ; Rao 1993 ). Consanguinity has also remained resilient in spite of the adverse biological risks for children (Grant...
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Is 60 the New 50? Examining Changes in Biological Age Over the Past Two Decades
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 387–402.
Published: 06 March 2018
... of recorded life span; (2) be able to identify at-risk individuals prior to entering a disease state; (3) be a better predictor of multiple age-associated biological and functional outcomes than is chronological age; and (4) predict both remaining longevity and disease-specific mortality in a population...
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One step back in understanding racial differences in birth weight
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 569–571.
Published: 01 November 2001
... in birth health risk. Their effort to integrate biological and social fac- tors into their analysis is commendable. Biological data are increasingly available for demographic research; these data allow researchers the opportunity to examine the relationship between biology and demographic processes...
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Measurement of cumulative physiological dysregulation in an older population
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 165–183.
Published: 01 February 2006
... , M.C. ( 2004 ). Sex Differentials in Biological Risk Factors for Chronic Disease: Estimates From Population-Based Surveys . Journal of Women’s Health , 13 , 393 – 403 . 10.1089/154099904323087088 Jenny , N.S. , Tracy , R.P. , Ogg , M.S. , le Luong , A. , Kuller , L.H...
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Low birth weight, social factors, and developmental outcomes among children in the United States
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 353–368.
Published: 01 May 2002
... the Peabody Individual Achievement Tests of Mathematics and Reading Recognition as our outcome variables, we also evaluated the dynamic nature of biological and social risk factors from ages 6 to 14. We found the following: (1) birth weight is significantly related to developmental outcomes, net of important...
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The Significance of Education for Mortality Compression in the United States
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 819–840.
Published: 04 May 2012
...-free life expectancy for Americans 70 years old and older . Demography , 46 , 627 – 646 . 10.1353/dem.0.0070 Crimmins E. M. , Kim J. K. , & Seeman T. E. ( 2009 ). Poverty and biological risk: The earlier “aging” of the poor . Journal of Gerontology Series A: Biological...
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Looking at Population Health Beyond “Male” and “Female”: Implications of Transgender Identity and Gender Nonconformity for Population Health
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2097–2117.
Published: 25 September 2018
... adults, and cisgender (nontransgender) men and women in the U.S. population. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data from 32 U.S. states and territories between 2014 and 2016 yield an analytic sample that identifies 2,229 transgender and gender-nonconforming adults and 516,753 cisgender...
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Does Parents’ Union Instability Disrupt Intergenerational Advantage? An Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 445–473.
Published: 07 February 2020
... reduction in the risk of being stunted or underweight than do their peers who live with their comparably educated biological fathers. This heightened benefit tied to stepfathers’ education operates net of any possible—although nonsignificant—distinctions in the impact of mothers’ education. As shown...
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Recent developments in longitudinal studies of aging in the United States
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S111–S130.
Published: 01 March 2010
... using adaptive testing structures has also been shared across the studies. The HRS has expanded its economic measurement to longitudinal studies of consumption and to broader-based measurement of pension and Social Security wealth. It has added biomarkers of cardiovascular risk. The WLS has developed...
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