ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2020
Social Relationships and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Postmenopausal Women.
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- How sweet is your love? Disentangling the role of marital status and quality on average glycemic levels among adults 50 years and older in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2023Article
- Increased eHSP70-to-iHSP70 ratio in prediabetic and diabetic postmenopausal women: a biomarker of cardiometabolic risk.Cell stress & chaperones · 2022Article
- Social networks and type 2 diabetes: a narrative review.Diabetologia · 2021Review
- Fatalism, Social Support and Self-Management Perceptions among Rural African Americans Living with Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2021Article
- Are the factors associated with overweight/general obesity and abdominal obesity different depending on menopausal status?PloS one · 2021Article
- Loneliness and type 2 diabetes incidence: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.Diabetologia · 2020Article
- Social Support, Strain, and Glycemic Control: A Path Analysis.Personal Relationships · 2020Article
- Lifestyle and Psychosocial Patterns and Diabetes Incidence Among Women with and Without Obesity: a Prospective Latent Class Analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Article
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objectivesWe examined whether social relationship variables (social support, social strain, social network size, and stressful life events) were associated with risk of developing type 2 diabetes among postmenopausal women.
method139,924 postmenopausal women aged 50-79 years without prevalent diabetes at baseline were followed for a mean of 14 years. 19,240 women developed diabetes. Multivariable Cox proportional hazard models tested associations between social relationship variables and diabetes incidence after consideration of demographics, depressive symptoms, and lifestyle behaviors. We also examined moderating effects of obesity and race/ethnicity, and we tested whether social variable associations were mediated by lifestyle or depressive symptoms.
resultsCompared with the lowest quartile, women in the highest social support quartile had lower risk of diabetes after adjusting for demographic factors, health behaviors, and depressive symptoms (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.93, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.89-0.97). Social strain (HR = 1.09, 95% CI = 1.04-1.13) and stressful life events (HR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.05-1.15) were associated with higher diabetes risks. The association between diabetes and social strain was stronger among African American women. Social relationship variables had direct relationships to diabetes, as well as indirect effects partially mediated by lifestyle and depressive symptoms. DISCUSSION: Social support, social strain, and stressful life events were associated with diabetes risk among postmenopausal women independently of demographic factors and health behaviors. In addition to healthy behaviors such as diet and physical activity, healthy social relationships among older women may be important in the prevention of diabetes.
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