ArticleJournal of community health2013
Differences in hypertension by sexual orientation among U.S. young adults.
Article in Journal of community health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Cardiovascular Disease in Sexual Minorities.American journal of public health · 2017Pooled it
- Disparities in Physical Health Conditions Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women: A Systematic Review of Population-Based Studies.Journal of homosexuality · 2017Pooled it
- Paradoxical Obesity and Overweight Disparities Among Sexual Minority Men: A Meta-Analysis.American journal of men's healthPooled it
- Sexual minority adults exhibit greater inflammation than heterosexual adults in the context of depressive symptoms and anxiety: Pathways to health disparities.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2026Article
- Health and social inequities among cisgender gay and bisexual men in Japan: a nationwide cross-sectional study using a large-scale web-based survey.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Sexual minority populations and disparities in cardiovascular healthcare.European heart journal · 2025Review
- Enhancing student understanding of cardiovascular disease burden in marginalized communities in the physiology classroom.Advances in physiology education · 2025Article
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Exploring the Intersection of Cardiovascular Disease, Sex and Race and How Exercise, and Gut Microbiota Influence these Relationships.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
- Stigma, Mental Health, and Health care Use Among Rural Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2024Article
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- Importance of survey demographic questions to foster inclusion in medicine and research and reduce health inequities for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2023Article
- A Newly Developed Scale for Assessing Experienced and Anticipated Sexual Stigma in Health-Care Services for Gay and Bisexual Men.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Budget Justice: Investing in the Health of New York City's Ethnoracially Minoritized LGBTQ+ Students in the Wake of COVID-19.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2022Article
- A Need for Greater Emphasis on 2SLGBTQIA+ Health Among Physiotherapists in Canada.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2022Article
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- A population-based study of the intersection of sexual identity and race/ethnicity on physiological risk factors for CVD among U.S. adults (ages 18-59).Ethnicity & health · 2022Article
- Comorbidity Prevalence and Impact on Quality of Life in Gay and Bisexual Men Following Prostate Cancer Treatment.Sexual medicine · 2021Article
- Nonattendance at Scheduled Appointments in Outpatient Clinics Due to COVID-19 and Related Factors in Taiwan: A Health Belief Model Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Perceived discrimination predicts elevated biological markers of inflammation among sexual minority adults.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Using a nationally representative data set, this study provides the first estimates of differences in hypertension by sexual orientation using objective measures of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Logistic regressions showed that there were no differences in hypertensive risk between mostly heterosexual/bisexual identified-respondents and heterosexual-identified respondents among both men and women. Gay men, however, are almost twice as likely (odds ratio = 1.92, p < .01) to be hypertensive compared to heterosexual men. The elevated risk is not explained by measures of minority stress, nor by cardiovascular disease risk factors such as smoking, alcohol use, drug use, BMI, or physical activity. No differences in hypertension risk by sexual orientation were detected among female respondents. The results suggest that gay men face an excess risk for hypertension compared to heterosexual men that is not explained by differences in measured health behaviors.
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