Understanding social disparities in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control: the role of neighborhood context.

ABSTRACT: The spatial segregation of the US population by socioeconomic position and especially race/ethnicity suggests that the social contexts or "neighborhoods" in which people live may substantially contribute to social disparities in hypertension. The Chicago Community Adult Health Study did face-to-face interviews, including direct measurement of blood pressure, with a representative probability sample of adults in Chicago. These data were used to estimate socioeconomic and racial-ethnic disparities in the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, and to analyze how these disparities are related to the areas in which people live. Hypertension was significantly negatively associated with neighborhood affluence/gentrification, and adjustments for context eliminated the highl

SUBMITTER: Morenoff JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2705439 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature