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Study Finds Some Urban Neighborhoods Show Higher Risk of Hypertension

May 6, 2014

Longjian LiuDr. Longjian Liu, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, is the first author of a paper in the Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine entitled “Multilevel and Spatial–Time Trend Analyses of the Prevalence of Hypertension in a Large Urban City in the USA.”

Coauthors for this article included colleagues from Drexel University College of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Chengdu Medical College in China.

According to the results of this study, prevalence of hypertension significantly increased from the time period of 2002-2004 as compared to 2008-2010, and individuals living in neighborhoods with disadvantaged physical and social environments have significantly higher risk of the prevalence of hypertension.