Maternal Education in Early Life and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Young Adult American Females and Males

Background: Maternal education in a child’s early life may directly affect the child’s adult cardiometabolic health, but this is difficult to disentangle from biological, social, and behavioral life course processes that are associated with maternal education. These processes may also differ between males and females. Methods: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1995–2009) (N = 4,026 females and 3,192...