ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2017
Receipt of public assistance during childhood and hypertension risk in adulthood.
Article in Annals of epidemiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Methods Used to Evaluate the Health Effects of Social Policies: A Systematic Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2025Article
- The long-term health effects of childhood exposure to social and economic policies: A scoping review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Incidence of Arterial Hypertension is Associated with Adiposity in Children and Adolescents.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2023Article
- Lifecourse Educational Trajectories and Hypertension in Midlife: An Application of Sequence Analysis.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022Article
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purposeWe examined if receipt of public assistance during childhood lowered risk for hypertension by mid-life in a cohort of African Americans in the Southeastern United States.
methodsWe used multiple logistic regression models to assess the relationship between receipt of public assistance during childhood and adult hypertension among 405 male and 737 female adult participants enrolled between 1988 and 2001 in the Pitt County Study, a community-based prospective cohort study of African Americans in North Carolina. Statistical analyses were adjusted for child and adult sociodemographic measures as well as adult psychosocial and lifestyle factors.
resultsWomen who grew up in economically disadvantaged families and who received public assistance during childhood had a 66% decreased odds of hypertension by mid-life compared with women similarly disadvantaged in childhood but who did not receive public assistance, odds ratio = 0.34; 95% confidence interval: 0.14-0.83. No association was observed for African American men.
conclusionsReceipt of anti-poverty federal assistance during childhood was associated with reduced risk for hypertension by mid-life among African American women. It is possible that social expenditures on public assistance programs for families in need could produce long-term health benefits for children.
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