Lethal Police Encounters and Cardiovascular Health among Black Americans.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
; 10(4): 1756-1767, 2023 08.
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| ID: mdl-35778629
ABSTRACT
This study uses insights from social stress theory to examine associations between exposure to police killings of Black Americans and cardiovascular health among Black women and men. Data on lethal police encounters come from the Mapping Police Violence (MPV) database, which allows for examination of total exposures to police killings of Black people and exposures to events when decedents were unarmed. MPV data are merged with the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (n = 26,086) and state-level information from multiple federal databases. Four cardiovascular health outcomes are examined-hypertension, diabetes, heart attack, and stroke. After adjusting for important risk factors, results from gender-stratified multilevel logistic regressions reveal a positive association between exposures to police killings of unarmed Black people and odds of hypertension among Black women and stroke among Black men. Total exposures to police killings of Black people are also associated with greater likelihood of stroke for Black men. Findings from this study demonstrate that stress exposures generated by the quantity and injustice of police killings have important implications for cardiovascular health among Black Americans. Furthermore, adverse cardiovascular health associated with exposure to police violence tends to manifest differently for Black men and women.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Black or African American
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Cardiovascular Diseases
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Police
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Social Determinants of Health
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Exposure to Violence
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Homicide
Type of study:
Risk_factors_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos