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Socioeconomic status was tied to the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among low-income, African-American youth during the last U.S. recession, researchers found.
Black youth from rural Georgia whose socioeconomic status was at poverty level prior to the recession and thus continued to decline had the highest rates of metabolic syndrome at 28.5%, according to Gregory E. Miller, PhD, of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and colleagues.
The lowest prevalence of metabolic syndrome (10.4%) was seen among youth who remained in a stable, low-income household, while those who fell below the poverty line during the recession reported a higher prevalence of 21.8%, they wrote in the Journal of the American Heart Association.