Blood pressure and social class in a Jamaican community.
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 78 (6) , 714-716
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.78.6.714
Abstract
A study of social factors and blood pressure was conducted in a Jamaican community among a sample of 199 persons ages 30 to 50. After controlling for obesity, age, and respondent tension (and other covariates), interaction effects of social class .times. sex for systolic and diastolic blood pressure were found. Blood pressure increased with increasing social class for males and decreased with increasing social class for females.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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