Late life socioeconomic status and hypertension in an aging cohort: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the association between individual and area-level socioeconomic status and hypertension risk among individuals later in life.

Methods

We used Cox proportional hazards models to examine the association of socioeconomic status with incident hypertension using race-specific neighborhood socioeconomic status, median household income, and education among 3372 participants (mean age, 61 years) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study at Visit 4 (1996-1998). Incident hypertension was defined as self-reported diagnosis or reported use of antihypertensive medications.

Results

Over a median follow-up time of 9.4 years, there were 1874 new cases of hypertension (62.1 per 1000 person-years). Overall, being in high as compared with low socioecono

SUBMITTER: McDoom MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6453664 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature