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    • Cardiovascular Health
    • Psychosocial Factors
    • Health Disparities

    Background:

    • Spiritual transcendence (ST), encompassing prayer/meditation, connectedness, and universality, is explored for its link to cardiovascular health.
    • The American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7 (LS7) provides a metric for assessing cardiovascular health (CVH).
    • Understanding variations in ST-CVH associations across diverse racial and socioeconomic groups is crucial for targeted health strategies.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the associations between spiritual transcendence (ST) and cardiovascular health (CVH) as measured by the Life's Simple 7 (LS7).
    • To examine how these associations differ across racial (African American and White) and socioeconomic (poverty and education) strata.
    • To identify potential interaction effects between ST, race, and socioeconomic status on CVH.

    Main Methods:

    • Cross-sectional study utilizing data from 1,110 midlife and older African American and White adults.
    • Spiritual transcendence (ST) assessed via self-report; cardiovascular health (CVH) measured using the Life's Simple 7 (LS7) components.
    • Multiple linear regression with a 3-way interaction term (ST, race, socioeconomic status) analyzed, controlling for sex and age.

    Main Results:

    • A significant 3-way interaction between ST, race, and poverty status was observed, indicating differential effects.
    • A positive association between ST and LS7 was found only for White adults living above the poverty line.
    • Exploratory analysis revealed a nonlinear (U-shaped) interaction with age; both lower and higher ST were linked to better LS7 in older African American adults.

    Conclusions:

    • Spirituality's association with overall cardiovascular health (CVH) is not uniform across all individuals and demographic groups.
    • The benefits of spiritual transcendence (ST) on cardiovascular health (CVH) are contingent upon race and socioeconomic status.
    • Personalized integration of spiritual care practices holds potential for enhancing cardiovascular health (CVH) outcomes.