Journal of Interventional and General Cardiology

Department of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA

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  Household Income and Children Exercise Frequency: Blacks’ Diminished Returns
  Author(s): Shervin Assari*, Shanika Boyce, Mohsen Bazargan and Cleopatra H Caldwell
  
  Background: Based on the Marginalization-related Diminished Returns (MDRs) framework, a wide array of socioeconomic status (SES) indicators including but not limited to household income tend to show weaker effects for members of marginalized social groups. Limited knowledge exists on MDRs of household income on children exercise frequency. Aims: Built on the MDRs framework, we tested the hypothesis of whether the effect of household income on exercise frequency differs for Black than White children. We hypothesized that: 1) there is a positive association between household income and exercise frequency for American households. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, data came from wave one of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study which included 8027 non-Hispanic Black or White American children betwee.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2684-4591.2021.5.121

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