Open AccessMidlife Family Economic Hardship and Later Life Cardiometabolic Health: The Protective Role of Marital Integration
Author(s) -
K. A. S. Wickrama,
Catherine Walker O’Neal,
Tricia K. Neppl
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the gerontologist/the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/gny047
Subject(s) - marital status , psychology , gerontology , demography , medicine , sociology , population
The current study assesses the unique influences of family economic hardship (FEH) in early and late midlife on husbands' and wives' body mass index (BMI) and the influence of BMI on the onset of cardiometabolic (CM) disease in later adulthood. The protective role of marital integration is also considered in relation to the stress-response link between FEH and BMI.