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- Title
Job strain and blood pressure in African Americans: The Pitt County Study.
- Authors
Curtis, Amy B.; James, Sherman A.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Alcser, Kirsten H.
- Abstract
The article examines whether job strain, or its components, decision latitude and job demands, was associated with elevated blood pressure levels in a community-based sample of 726 African-American adults. It shows that job strain, the composite variable, was not predictive of higher mean blood or higher hypertension prevalence for employed members of the Pitt County study population. The constituent variable, decision latitude and job demands, were related to differential risk for men and women, respectively. For men, high decision latitude was associated with more than a 50% decrease in the prevalence of hypertension. For women, a nonsignificant trend was noted for high job demands to be associated with higher mean systolic blood pressure. The study participants who had elevated blood pressure at baseline were not followed in 1993. It individuals with high blood pressure seIf-selected out of high-strain jobs, this would also lead to selection bias, weakening the expected positive association between job strain and hypertension risk.
- Subjects
JOB stress; BLOOD pressure; DECISION making; HYPERTENSION; HEALTH risk assessment; AFRICAN Americans; PUBLIC health
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1997, Vol 87, Issue 8, p1297
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.87.8.1297