ArticleJournal of aging and health2015
Social relationships and hypertension in late life: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study of older adults.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Association between chronic diseases and depressive inclinations among rural middle-aged and older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Isolation and Hypertension in Early Middle Adulthood.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Factors associated with the level of self-management in elderly patients with chronic diseases: a pathway analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Associations between dimensions of the social environment and cardiometabolic risk factors: Systematic review and meta-analysis.SSM - population health · 2024Review
- Moderating role of functional/ mobility limitations in the association between sleep problems and hypertension among middle-aged and older adults in India.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- A vicious cycle of frailty and acute lower respiratory infection among community-dwelling adults (≥ 60 years): Findings from a multi-site INSPIRE cohort study, India.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- It's all about connection: Determinants of social support and the influence on HIV treatment interruptions among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Parental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveSocial relationships are widely understood to be important for sustaining and improving health and longevity, but it remains unclear how different dimensions of social relationships operate through similar or distinct mechanisms to affect biophysiological markers of aging-related disease over time.
methodThis study utilized longitudinal data on a nationally representative sample of older adults from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005-2011) to examine the prospective associations between social integration and social support and change in systolic blood pressure (SBP) and hypertension risk over time.
resultsAlthough both social relationship dimensions have significant physiological impacts, their relative importance differs by outcome. Low social support was predictive of increase in SBP, whereas low social integration was predictive of increase in risk of hypertension. DISCUSSION: The different roles of relationship characteristics in predicting change in physiological outcomes suggest specific biophysiological stress response and behavioral mechanisms that have important implications for both scientific understandings and effective prevention and control of a leading chronic condition in late life.
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