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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
... levels of biological risk factors, more diseases, and more frailty; these differences are the sources of higher mortality for these groups. Hispanics are less likely to have a higher prevalence of risk factors and diseases than the non-Hispanic population, providing further understanding of the “Hispanic...
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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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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
... and trajectories. This study contributes to this literature because it assesses the associations of fertility history on a long-term process of chronic disease and how it unfolds during the later years of life. The differences in risk factors between men and women suggest that evolutionary, biological, and social...
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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
... almost 4 years older. Fig. 2 Additions to biological age as a function of smoking and obesity Given the strong association between biological age and smoking and obesity, we estimated how the prevalence of these risk factors changed between the two periods. We used predicted probabilities...
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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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One step back in understanding racial differences in birth weight
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 569–571.
Published: 01 November 2001
... be vigilant not to commit the errors of the past by misusing race as a variable. n Racial Differences in Birth Health Risk: A Quantitative Genetic Approach, Edwin J.C.G. van den Oord and David C. Rowe (2000) argue that a combination of racial genetics and environmental factors causes the racial differences...
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Drug use as a risk factor for premarital teen pregnancy and abortion in a National Sample of Young White Women
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 1992
... to explore whether prior drug use has a unique effect on premarital teen pregnancy, with controls for personality, lifestyle, and biological factors. Logistic regression is used to estimate whether drug use affects the decision to terminate a premarital teen pregnancy. The results show that the risk...
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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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Age, biological factors, and socioeconomic determinants of fertility: A new measure of cumulative fertility for use in the empirical analysis of family size
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 487–497.
Published: 01 November 1978
... , 81 , S202 – S233 . 10.1086/260162 Boulier , Bryan , & Rosenzweig , M. R. ( 1978 ). Age, Biological Factors, and Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility: New Measures of Cumulative Fertility for Use in the Socioeconomic Analysis of Family Size . New Haven : Yale University...
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Birth-interval dynamics in rural Bangladesh and maternal weight
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 425–437.
Published: 01 August 1989
... the relationship of several behavioral and biological factors to the probability of resuming men- struation. Increasing educational levels led to increases in the risk of resuming menstruation. Once time to first supplementation was included in the model, however, education was no longer significantly related...
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The misuse of biology in demographic research on racial/ethnic differences: A reply to van den oord and rowe
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 563–567.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Reanne Frank Abstract In an article in the August 2000 issue of Demography titled “Racial Differences in Birth Health Risk: A Quantitative Genetic Approach,” van den Oord and Rowe attempted to study the genetic and environmental factors contributing to the black/white gap in infant birth weight...
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The effect of inbreeding on early childhood mortality: Twelve generations of an amish settlement
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 263–271.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Linda Eberst Dorsten; Lawrence Hotchkiss; Terri M. King Abstract An unresolved issue in research on child survival is the extent to which familial mortality risk in infancy is due to biological influences net of sociodemographic and economic factors. We examine the effect of consanguinity on early...
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Intergenerational patterns of teenage fertility
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 February 1992
..., more generally, that patterns of teenage family formation (i.e., both marriage and childbearing behaviors) tend to be repeated intergenerationally. The results suggest that the intrafamily propensity for early childbearing is not inherited biologically, at least not through factors related...
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Famine, social disruption, and involuntary fetal loss: Evidence from chinese survey data
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 May 2005
... level of recognition of early pregnancy among them. Reporting errors are less of a problem for stillbirths. The predominance of biological factors over social factors in determining the risk of fetal loss suggests that miscarriage and stillbirth are not readily preventable and that one should not expect...
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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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Differences in disability among older women and men in Egypt and Tunisia
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 169–187.
Published: 01 February 2005
... Food Allocation in Rural Nepal . Social Science and Medicine , 33 , 1141 – 54 . 10.1016/0277-9536(91)90230-A Goldman , N. , Weinstein , M. , Cornman , J. , Singer , B. , Seeman , T. , & Chang , M.C. ( 2004 ). Sex Differentials in Biological Risk Factors...
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The Biodemography of Variation in Human Frailty
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 May 1990
... models to apply very precisely throughout life among genotypes (although this might be approximately at- tained). To understand the distribution of inherent frailty, it is usually more effective to study biological risk factors rather than a late-stage categorical-disease outcome itself, which may only...
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Prenatal Exposure to an Acute Stressor and Children’s Cognitive Outcomes
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1611–1639.
Published: 13 August 2018
... and beneficial response, at least in the short term (Schneiderman et al. 2005 ), chronic stress came to be seen as particularly maladaptive and toxic. Concepts such as cumulative biological risk factors (Evans et al. 2013 ; King et al. 2011 ), allostatic load (McEwen 1998 ; McEwen and Stellar 1993...
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Paradox Revisited: A Further Investigation of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Infant Mortality by Maternal Age
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 495–520.
Published: 10 October 2012
... to adjustments for risk factors using a multivariate analysis. I consider sociodemographic risk factors as analytically distinct from, but not necessarily independent of, maternal/biological risk factors. This perspective is consistent with the social conditions of health conceptual framework outlined by Link...
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Neighborhood context and racial differences in early adolescent sexual activity
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 697–720.
Published: 01 November 2004
... groups to which youths attach, with African American adolescents affiliating with more deviant peer groups than European American and Latino youths (Furstenberg et al. 1987; Lauritsen 1994). Finally, a host of biological, behavioral, temperamental, and academic risk factors for adolescent sexual activity...
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