A recent study in the Journal of the American Heart Association suggests that the perceptions of teens, particularly Black youth, about their lives may influence their cardiometabolic health risk in adulthood. Teens with higher levels of optimism, happiness, self-esteem, belongingness, and feelin
Adolescents with greater levels of optimism, happiness, self-esteem, sense of belonging, and love are more likely to maintain good cardiometabolic health in their 20s and 30s compared to those with fewer of these positive psychological assets.
“We learned a lot in the last few decades about the impact of discrimination and other social risks youth of color face that may explain their elevated rates of cardiometabolic disease, however, much less attention is paid to the inherent strengths they possess and the ways those strengths may be leveraged to advance health equity,” said lead study author Farah Qureshi, Sc.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
To examine cardiometabolic health in this study, researchers reviewed health measures for seven cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk factors collected during clinic visits when participants were in their late 20s and 30s.
There was also a cumulative effect, with each additional mental health asset conferring a 12% greater likelihood of positive cardiometabolic health. “These somewhat counterintuitive findings were surprising,” Qureshi said. “When we dug deeper, we found that the absence of psychological assets being was particularly health-damaging for Black youth.
Limitations of the study include that there were relatively few participants who were Latino, Asian, or Native American and there were variations in blood sample collection methods over time.
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