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 Wh

SUBMITTER: Hicken MT 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature