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For this assignment I chose Socioeconomic Status SES and how it fits into the lifespan model SES is a large piece of the puzzle in understanding how education environmental factors mental physical health and financial status can dictate the outcome of a person's life The main idea of my paper is the link between cardiovascular mortality rate in older adults with lower SES With this being said I will now focus on my supporting article The article I chose for this is assignment was an English longitudinal study of aging The study used 8688 participants over the age of fifty years old In this study there were four categories of factors that were measured socio factors such as occupation of participant and paternal as well as education The next category was behavioral factors such as smoking physical activity alcohol intake and BMI Psychosocial factors were defined as social relationships social networks loneliness positive negative support from spouse and family Lastly physiological factors were defined as blood pressure and high cholesterol With these measured being considered important we can move on to the results In the longitudinal study 1301 participants died during the 8 4 year follow up and 438 from CVD However results still showed a significant difference in the low stable SES vs the high SES Low SES resulted in higher risk of smoking physical inactivity increased BMI negative support high blood pressure High SES was more associated with higher risk of alcohol consumption increased social network size high total cholesterol and positive support Also the study introduced inflammatory markers such as CRP which measures an individual's risk of CVD and fibrinogen
