Social network factors and cardiovascular health among baltimore public housing residents.

ABSTRACT: Social networks - or the web of relationships between individuals - may influence cardiovascular disease risk, particularly in low-income urban communities that suffer from a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease. Our objective was to describe the social networks of public housing residents - a low-income urban population - in Baltimore, MD and the association between these networks and blood pressure. We used cross-sectional survey data of randomly selected heads of household in two public housing complexes in Baltimore, MD (8/2014-8/2015). Respondents answered questions about 10 social network members, including attributes of their relationship and the frequency of interaction between members. We calculated measures of network composition (e.g., proportion of network members who were

SUBMITTER: Meza BPL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7498937 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature