For African-Americans, the isolation of living in a racially segregated neighborhood may lead to an important health issue: higher blood pressure.
A study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine suggested blacks living in such areas experienced higher blood pressure than those living in more diverse communities. Moving to integrated areas was associated with a decrease in blood pressure, and those who permanently stayed in localities with low segregation saw their pressure fall on average nearly 6 points.
Kiarri Kershaw, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and lead author of the study, said the findings reinforce the close relationship between social policy and community health outcomes.
[For more of this story, written by Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, go to http://californiahealthline.or...essure-among-blacks/]
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