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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST gMR0x4Wz. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Study objectives-To compare associations of childhood and adult socioeconomic position with cardiovascular risk factors measured in adulthood. To estimate the effects of adult socioeconomic position after adjustment for childhood circumstances. Design-Cross sectional survey, using the relative index of inequality method to compare socioeconomic differences at different life stages. Setting-The Whitehall II longitudinal study of men and women employed in London offices of the Civil Service at study baseline in 1985-88. Participants-4774 men and 2206 women born in the period 1930-53 who were administered questions on early socioeconomic circumstances. Main results-Adult occupational position (employment grade) was inversely associated (high status-low risk) with current smoking and leisure time physical inactivity, with waist/height, and with metabolic risk factors HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, post-load glucose and fibrinogen. Associations of these variables with childhood socioeconomic position (father's Registrar General Social Class) were weaker or absent, with the exception of smoking in women. Childhood social position was associated with adult weight in both sexes and with current smoking, waist/height, HDL cholesterol and fibrinogen in women. Height, a measure of health capital or constitution, was weakly linked with father's social class and more strongly linked with own employment grade. (...)
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