Where you live can affect your blood pressure, study suggests

[rangerrebew]

Where you live can affect your blood pressure, study suggests
Lack of resources in racially segregated neighborhoods linked to health impact
By
Aimee Cunningham
7:21pm, May 15, 2017
 

LOCATION LINK  Moving from a highly segregated neighborhood to one with less segregation is associated with a decrease in systolic blood pressure among black adults, a new study finds.

James Gathany/CDC

For black adults, moving out of a racially segregated neighborhood is linked to a drop in blood pressure, according to a new study. The finding adds to growing evidence of an association between a lack of resources in many predominately black neighborhoods and adverse health conditions among their residents, such as diabetes and obesity.

Systolic blood pressure — the pressure in blood vessels when the heart beats — of black adults who left their highly segregated communities decreased just over 1 millimeter of mercury on average, researchers report online May 15 in JAMA Internal Medicine. This decline, though small, could reduce the overall incidence of heart failure and coronary heart disease.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/where-you-live-can-affect-your-blood-pressure-study-suggests?tgt=nr

[Applewood]

I think if you live in a region dominated by Democrats, your blood pressure will go up.  Maybe someone should study that angle.

[Polly Ticks]

I think if you live in a region dominated by Democrats, your blood pressure will go up.  Maybe someone should study that angle.

You might be on to something there.

In a similar angle, I live with a husband and five sons and my blood pressure absolutely goes up any time I'm trying to make sure everyone gets somewhere on time, everyone has their homework and/or chores done, etc.

[anubias]

I think if you live in a region dominated by Democrats, your blood pressure will go up.  Maybe someone should study that angle.

That explains my daily high blood pressure spike.   

[truth_seeker]

Blame da whitey fo keepin us down.

Not bein roun black folks be bad fo da health.

Nt bein roun white folks be good fo da health.

(If it isn't da bad genetics, it is da shooting, overdosing, etc.)

[Idaho_Cowboy]

So now I have blood pressure privilege?

[UnwashedPeasant]

Black neighborhood = Democrats = Crime

[Old Warrior in Exile]

So now I have blood pressure privilege?

[Frank Cannon]

This article is absolutely right. I live by a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant and my blood pressure is through the roof. The clinic doctor says it is from all the MSG in the food they throw out and I eat. He suggest I move down the street to the dumpster behind the Bavarian restaurant.

[GtHawk]

I know for a fact that where you drive sure as hell can, like in an area where there are large numbers of Hispanic, Asian and elderly drivers. I recall when I was young and and all you really had to worry about were elderly drivers, my dad gave me a good rule to live by, watch out for old men in hats! Sadly my dad became that old man in a hat, me? I don't wear hats, why warn the opposition!