Child Marriage and Cardiovascular Risk : An Application of the Non-laboratory Framingham Risk Score

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INTRODUCTION: Child marriage, defined as marriage before the age of 18 years, is a precocious transition from adolescence to adulthood, which may take a long-term toll on health.

AIM: This study aims to assess whether child marriage was associated with added risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in a nationally representative sample of Indian adults.

METHODS: Applying the non-laboratory-based Framingham algorithm to data on 336,953 women aged 30-49 years and 49,617 men aged 30-54 years, we estimated individual's predicted heart age (PHA). Comparing the PHA with chronological age (CA), we categorized individuals in four groups: (i) low PHA: PHA < CA, (ii) equal PHA: PHA = CA (reference category), (iii) high PHA: PHA > CA by at most 4 years, and (iv) very high PHA: PHA > CA by 5 + years. We estimated multivariable multinomial logistic regressions to obtain relative risks of respective categories for the child marriage indicator.

RESULTS: We found that women who were married in childhood had 1.06 (95% CI 1.01-1.10) and 1.22 (95% CI 1.16-1.27) times higher adjusted risks of having high and very high PHA, respectively, compared to women who were married as adults. For men, no differential risks were found between those who were married as children and as adults. These results were generally robust across various socioeconomic sub-groups.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings add to the relatively new and evolving strand of literature that examines the role of child marriage on later life chronic health outcomes and provide important insights for public health policies aimed at improving women's health and wellbeing.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension - 31(2024), 1 vom: 11. Jan., Seite 55-63

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Datta, Biplab Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Ansa, Benjamin E [VerfasserIn]
Saucier, Ashley [VerfasserIn]
Pandey, Ajay [VerfasserIn]
Haider, Mohammad Rifat [VerfasserIn]
Puranda, Racquel [VerfasserIn]
Adams, Malika [VerfasserIn]
Coffin, Janis [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiovascular risk score
Health status disparity
Journal Article
Marriage age

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Date Completed 12.03.2024

Date Revised 12.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s40292-023-00620-2

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367757303