Relative risk of untreated hypertension in type-A employed African American women.
The purpose of this study was to determine the relative risk of hypertension in African American women with type A behaviour pattern. Of the 305 employed African American women, 147 (48.2%) were classified as type A and 158 (51.8%) as type B. The logistic regression procedure was used to calculate the adjusted relative risk of having an elevated SBP by controlling for age, weight and cholesterol. We found that the adjusted relative risk of type A African American women having an elevated SBP and DBP was 9.06 and 2.26 times that of type B, respectively.
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College of Nursing, JHMHC, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610.
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D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D014434:Type A Personality