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ArticleMilitary medicine2018

Military Service, Childhood Socio-Economic Status, and Late-Life Lung Function: Korean War Era Military Service Associated with Smaller Disparities.

Anusha M Vable, Mathew V Kiang, Sanjay Basu, Kara E Rudolph, Ichiro Kawachi, S V Subramanian, M Maria Glymour

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Article in Military medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Anusha M VableCenter for Population Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Mathew V KiangDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Sanjay BasuCenter for Population Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Kara E RudolphDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Ichiro KawachiDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
S V SubramanianDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
M Maria GlymourDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Harvard University · USStanford University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Harvard Education Program in Cancer Prevention Control (R25T)R25CA057711 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI DAVISON, KIRSTEN · 1992 to 2018
$8.5M
CORE--PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTP30AG017253 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BHATTACHARYA, JAY · 1999 to 2019
$5.8M
Cohort filtering models to identify social program effects on health disparitiesDP2MD010478 · NIMHD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BASU, SANJAY · 2015 to 2015
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS R25 CA057711NIA NIH HHS P30 AG017253NIMHD NIH HHS DP2 MD010478
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMilitary service is associated with smoking initiation, but U.S. veterans are also eligible for special social, financial, and healthcare benefits, which are associated with smoking cessation. A key public health question is how these offsetting pathways affect health disparities; we assessed the net effects of military service on later life pulmonary function among Korean War era veterans by childhood socio-economic status (cSES).

methodsData came from U.S.-born male Korean War era veteran (service: 1950-1954) and non-veteran participants in the observational U.S. Health and Retirement Study who were alive in 2010 (average age = 78). Veterans (N = 203) and non-veterans (N = 195) were exactly matched using coarsened exact matching on birth year, race, coarsened height, birthplace, childhood health, and parental and childhood smoking. Results were evaluated by cSES (defined as maternal education <8 yr/unknown or ≥8 yr), in predicting lung function, as assessed by peak expiratory flow (PEF), measured in 2008 or 2010.

findingsWhile there was little overall association between veterans and PEF [β = 12.8 L/min; 95% confidence interval (CI): (-12.1, 37.7); p = 0.314; average non-veteran PEF = 379 L/min], low-cSES veterans had higher PEF than similar non-veterans [β = 81.9 L/min; 95% CI: (25.2, 138.5); p = 0.005], resulting in smaller socio-economic disparities among veterans compared to non-veterans [difference in disparities: β = -85.0 L/min; 95% CI: (-147.9, -22.2); p = 0.008]. DISCUSSION: Korean War era military service appears to disproportionately benefit low-cSES veteran lung functioning, resulting in smaller socio-economic disparities among veterans compared with non-veterans.

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Social ClassAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansKorean WarLinear ModelsLung DiseasesMaleRespiratory Function TestsSmokingUnited StatesVeteranshealth disparitieslung functionmatchingpulmonary functionveterans

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