Key result
Baseline anxiety, suppressed anger, and family instability independently predicted incident hypertension over 4 years in urbanized Black students, but not in White students.
Cohort (n=528)
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Psychosocial factors including anxiety, suppressed anger, and family instability are independent predictors of incident hypertension in young, urbanized Black African students.
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May support psychosocial screening in young urban Black adults; hypothesis-generating for race-specific prevention trials.
Somova et al. (1995) conducted a cohort in Hypertension (n=528). Psychosocial factors (anxiety, suppressed anger, family instability) was evaluated on Incidence of hypertension. Baseline anxiety, suppressed anger, and family instability independently predicted incident hypertension over 4 years in urbanized Black students, but not in White students.
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