Multiple Social Vulnerabilities to Health Disparities and Hypertension and Death in the REGARDS Study.

ABSTRACT: Social vulnerabilities increase the risk of developing hypertension and lower life expectancy, but the effect of an individual's overall vulnerability burden is unknown. Our objective was to determine the association of social vulnerability count and the risk of developing hypertension or dying over 10 years and whether these associations vary by race. We used the REGARDS study (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) and included participants without baseline hypertension. The primary exposure was the count of social vulnerabilities defined across economic, education, health and health care, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context domains. Among 5425 participants of mean age 64±10 SD years of which 24% were Black participants, 1468 (31%) had 1

SUBMITTER: King JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665033 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature