Association Between Acute Exposure to Crime and Individual Systolic Blood Pressure.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hypertension is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes and is geographically concentrated in urban underserved neighborhoods. This study examines the temporal-spatial association between individual exposure to violent crime and blood pressure.

Methods

A retrospective observational cohort study analyzed 39,211 patients with 227,595 blood pressure measurements from 2014 to 2016 at 3 outpatient clinics at an academic medical center in Chicago. Patients were included in the study if they had documentation of blood pressure in the medical record and resided in census tracts with >1,000 observations. Geocoded violent crime events were obtained from the Chicago Police Department. Individual-level exposure was defined on the basis of spatial and temporal buffer

SUBMITTER: Wilson WW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8973828 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature