Open AccessNeighborhood Disadvantage, Poor Social Conditions, and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence Among African American Adults in the Jackson Heart Study
Author(s) -
Sharrelle Barber,
DeMarc A. Hickson,
Xu Wang,
Mario Sims,
Cheryl Nelson,
Ana V. DiezRoux
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2016.303471
Subject(s) - demography , hazard ratio , disadvantage , confidence interval , gerontology , medicine , covariate , african american , public health , sociology , statistics , ethnology , political science , law , mathematics , nursing
To examine the impact of neighborhood conditions resulting from racial residential segregation on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in a socioeconomically diverse African American sample.