Does socioeconomic status or acculturation modify the association between ethnicity and hypertension treatment before stroke?

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Socioeconomic status and acculturation may modify the association between ethnicity and hypertension treatment before stroke. We assessed prestroke treatment of hypertension by ethnicity, education (proxy for socioeconomic status), and English proficiency (EP; proxy for acculturation) in a population-based stroke surveillance project.

Methods

Among 763 patients with first-ever stroke aged ≥45 years in the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi project from 2000 to 2006, we examined self-reported hypertension treatment at the time of the stroke by ethnicity (Mexican American [MA] versus non-Hispanic white [NHW]) in the overall sample, within education strata (high school), and after dichotomizing MAs by self-reported EP

SUBMITTER: Levine DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3926662 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature