Gender differences in the association between socioeconomic status and hypertension in France: A cross-sectional analysis of the CONSTANCES cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypertension prevalence increases when socioeconomic status decreases but gender differences in the relationship between socioeconomic status and hypertension have been less studied. This work aimed to explore the pattern of associations between three indicators of socioeconomic status at individual, household, and municipal levels with hypertension across genders in a large sample of French adults from the CONSTANCES cohort.

Methods

Using data at inclusion from 59 805 participants (52% women) aged 25-69 years and recruited between 2012 and 2015, multilevel log-Poisson regressions with robust variance estimates were used to assess the associations of Relative Index of Inequality in education, monthly income per consumption unit and residential deprivation with hyp

SUBMITTER: Neufcourt L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7170232 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature