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Neighborhood factors, individual stressors, and cardiovascular health among Black and white adults

JAMA Network Open

2023-09-29
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About The Study: In this study of Black and white U.S. adults ages 45 and older, neighborhood-level factors, including safety and physical and social environments, and individual-level factors, including discrimination, attenuated racial disparities in cardiovascular health. Interventional approaches to improve ideal cardiovascular health that separately target neighborhood context and discrimination by gender and race are warranted. 

Authors: Anika L. Hines, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, is the corresponding author. 

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.36207)

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