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TUESDAY, April 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Loss of wealth over a two-year period is associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality for U.S. adults aged 51 years and older, according to a study published in the April 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Lindsay R. Pool, Ph.D., from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues examined the impact of a negative wealth shock with all-cause mortality during 20 years of follow-up. Data were included for 8,714 U.S. adults aged 51 to 61 years at study entry in 1994 who were followed biennially through 2014.<\/p>\n
Of the participants, 2,430 experienced a negative wealth shock, defined as loss of 75 percent or more of total net worth over a two-year period, 749 had asset poverty at baseline, and 5,535 had continuously positive wealth without shock. The researchers found that there were 2,823 deaths during 80,683 person-years of follow-up. Per 1,000 person-years there were 30.6 versus 64.9 deaths for those with continuously positive wealth versus a negative wealth shock (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.50). Those with asset poverty at baseline had 73.4 deaths per 1,000 person-years (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.67 compared with continuously positive wealth).<\/p>\n
“Among U.S. adults aged 51 years and older, loss of wealth over two years was associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality,” the authors write. “Further research is needed to better understand the possible mechanisms for this association and determine whether there is potential value for targeted interventions.”<\/p>\n
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