Relationship between social support and incident hypertension in the Jackson Heart Study: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Social support may be an important mitigating factor against adverse cardiovascular outcomes by facilitating health-promoting behaviours or by buffering against the negative effects of stress. This study examined the association of social support with incident hypertension.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

We evaluated the association of social support with incident hypertension among participants in the Jackson Heart Study, a community-based cohort of African Americans.

Participants

This study included African American adults, who were free of hypertension at baseline (2000-2004). Functional social support, structural social support and satisfaction with social support were assessed at baseline among 1516, 1240 and 1503 participants, respect

SUBMITTER: Harding BN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8932258 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature