UNVEILING LONGEVITY INSIGHTS: AFRICAN AMERICAN OLDER ADULTS IN THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY
Meneka Johnson Nicholson, Peter Martin · 2024
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Meneka Johnson Nicholson and Peter Martin studied what predicts long life in African American older adults in two thousand twenty-four. Longevity research has rarely focused on this group. Their data came from the Health and Retirement Study, a large national survey.
They followed seven hundred twenty-three African American participants from wave two and predicted age at death. Parents' ages at death did not predict longevity. Education and number of children mattered, as did body mass index and smoking. Four health markers, from self-rated health to diabetes, added further predictive power. Daily function and depression did not. The full model explained about thirty-five percent of the variation in age at death.
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| CREATOR | Meneka Johnson Nicholson, Peter Martin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |