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Racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension prevalence: reconsidering the role of chronic stress.


ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:We investigated the association between anticipatory stress, also known as racism-related vigilance, and hypertension prevalence in Black, Hispanic, and White adults. METHODS:We used data from the Chicago Community Adult Health Study, a population-representative sample of adults (n = 3105) surveyed in 2001 to 2003, to regress hypertension prevalence on the interaction between race/ethnicity and vigilance in logit models. RESULTS:Blacks reported the highest vigilance levels. For Blacks, each unit increase in vigilance (range = 0-12) was associated with a 4% increase in the odds of hypertension (odds ratio [OR] = 1.04; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.00, 1.09). Hispanics showed a similar but nonsignificant association (OR = 1.05; 95% CI = 0.99, 1.12), and Whites showed no association (OR = 0.95; 95% CI = 0.87, 1.03). CONCLUSIONS:Vigilance may represent an important and unique source of chronic stress that contributes to the well-documented higher prevalence of hypertension among Blacks than Whites; it is a possible contributor to hypertension among Hispanics but not Whites.

SUBMITTER: Hicken MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3910029 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension prevalence: reconsidering the role of chronic stress.

Hicken Margaret T MT   Lee Hedwig H   Morenoff Jeffrey J   House James S JS   Williams David R DR  

American journal of public health 20131114 1


<h4>Objectives</h4>We investigated the association between anticipatory stress, also known as racism-related vigilance, and hypertension prevalence in Black, Hispanic, and White adults.<h4>Methods</h4>We used data from the Chicago Community Adult Health Study, a population-representative sample of adults (n = 3105) surveyed in 2001 to 2003, to regress hypertension prevalence on the interaction between race/ethnicity and vigilance in logit models.<h4>Results</h4>Blacks reported the highest vigila  ...[more]

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