Social Inequalities in Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescence
Elizabeth Goodman, MD,
Bruce S. McEwen, PhD,
Bin Huang, PhD,
Lawrence M. Dolan, MD and
Nancy E. Adler, PhD
From the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (E.G.); Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY (B.S.M.); the Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.H.) and the Division of Endocrinology (L.M.D.), Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California (N.E.A.).

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Figure 1. Distribution of cumulative risk scores of 758 adolescents.
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Figure 2. Cumulative risk score distribution among those with a particular risk factor. Rows represent populations who had greater than 1 standard deviation above, or for HDL-C below, the mean for that particular factor. The distribution of the cumulative risk score within that population is shown in the bars, which add up to 100% for each row.
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