Life Course Socioeconomic Status and Hypertension in African American Adults: The Jackson Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited research has examined the association of life-course socioeconomic status (SES) with hypertension prevalence and incidence in a large cohort of African Americans.

Methods

Among 4,761 participants from the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), we examined the association of SES indicators with prevalent and incident hypertension. We used multivariable Poisson regression to estimate prevalence ratios (PR, 95% confidence interval-CI) of baseline (2000-2004) hypertension by adult (education, income, occupation, wealth) and childhood (mother's education) SES. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR, 95% CI) of incident hypertension by adult and childhood SES (2005-2013; 7.21 median years of follow-up). We also examined the association of

SUBMITTER: Glover LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6931894 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature