The interaction between district-level development and individual-level socioeconomic gradients of cardiovascular disease risk factors in India: A cross-sectional study of 2.4 million adults

ISSN
0277-9536
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Jung, Lara
De Neve, Jan-Walter
Chen, Simiao
Manne-Goehler, Jennifer
Jaacks, Lindsay M
Corsi, Daniel J
Awasthi, Ashish
Subramanian, S V
Bärnighausen, Till
Geldsetzer, Pascal
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112514
Abstract
Diabetes, hypertension, and obesity tend to be positively associated with socio-economic status in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It has been hypothesized that these positive socio-economic gradients will reverse as LMICs continue to undergo economic development. We use population-based cross-sectional data in India to examine how a district's economic development is associated with socio-economic differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor prevalence between individuals.