Trial reportAmerican journal of hypertension2016
Multilevel Associations of Neighborhood Poverty, Crime, and Satisfaction With Blood Pressure in African-American Adults.
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- Neighborhood Safety and Hypertension Risk: A Systematic Review.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Pooled it
- Disparities in Socioeconomic Context and Association With Blood Pressure Control and Cardiovascular Outcomes in ALLHAT.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Trial
- Using Intervention Mapping to Develop, Implement, and Evaluate a Community Engaged Crime Reduction Intervention.Journal of community psychology · 2026Article
- What is the role of leisure-time physical activity in the association between neighborhood environmental characteristics and hypertension in older adults? The EpiFloripa Aging Cohort study.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Associations between dimensions of the social environment and cardiometabolic risk factors: Systematic review and meta-analysis.SSM - population health · 2024Review
- Longitudinal profiles of neighborhood socioeconomic vulnerability influence blood pressure changes across the female midlife period.Health & place · 2023Article
- Neighborhood social organization exposures and racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension risk in Los Angeles.PloS one · 2023Article
- Community social environments and cigarette smoking.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Regional living conditions and the prevalence, awareness, treatment, control of hypertension at the individual level in Russia.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Social and built neighborhood environments and blood pressure 6 years later: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos and the SOL CASAS ancillary study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Association Between Acute Exposure to Crime and Individual Systolic Blood Pressure.American journal of preventive medicine · 2022Observational
- Neighborhood Poverty and Incident Heart Failure: an Analysis of Electronic Health Records from 2005 to 2018.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Estimating exposure to neighborhood crime by race and ethnicity for public health research.BMC public health · 2021Article
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- Association of Rising Violent Crime With Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk: Longitudinal Evidence From Chicago, 2014-2016.American journal of hypertension · 2019Observational
- Longitudinal associations of neighborhood socioeconomic status with cardiovascular risk factors: A 46-year follow-up study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Article
- Loss of Trust in the Neighborhood: The Experience of Older African Americans in Detroit.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2018Article
- Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Crime and Perceived Safety With Blood Pressure: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).American journal of hypertension · 2018Article
- Preventable Hospitalization Rates and Neighborhood Poverty among New York City Residents, 2008-2013.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2016Article
- NEIGHBOURHOOD POVERTY, PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION AND CENTRAL ADIPOSITY IN THE USA: INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS IN A REPEATED MEASURES ANALYSIS.Journal of biosocial science · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundAfrican-American adults experience the highest rates of elevated blood pressure (BP), and this disparity may be linked to socioeconomic and neighborhood-related disadvantage. Based on a bioecological stress-buffering framework, relations of poverty and neighborhood environmental perceptions with BP were assessed using multilevel regression in at-risk African-American adults.
methodsThis cross-sectional study used baseline data that were collected in 2008 as part of the Positive Action for Today's Health (PATH) trial (N = 409), a community-based intervention to increase walking in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. BP and perceived neighborhood crime and satisfaction were investigated as individual-level indicators of health and neighborhood environment. Census block groups (N = 22) served as geographic proxies for neighborhoods, and poverty was obtained using 2010 U.S. Census data, to characterize the neighborhood-level socioeconomic environment.
resultsThere were no individual-level direct associations. Significant cross-product interactions demonstrated that with higher perceived crime, high satisfaction was associated with lower systolic (γ = 3.34) and diastolic (γ = -1.37) BP, but low satisfaction was associated with higher systolic (γ = 15.12) and diastolic (γ = 7.57) BP. Neighborhood-level poverty was associated with diastolic (γ = 11.48, SE = 4.08, P = 0.008) and systolic BP (γ = 12.79, SE = 6.33, P = 0.052). Variance in BP across block groups was low (intraclass correlation coefficients = 0.002-0.014) and there were no significant random effects.
conclusionsResults supported hypotheses, with greater neighborhood satisfaction linked to lower systolic and diastolic BP when perceived crime was high. Neighborhood poverty was also linked to higher systolic and diastolic BP. Prevention efforts should further investigate whether attending to issues of poverty and related neighborhood perceptions reduces high BP in at-risk African-American communities.
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