Segregated Living Linked To Higher Blood Pressure Among Blacks [CaliforniaHealthLine.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/17/174:00 AM

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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James GamboneMember

I would like to expand the thinking on this post by Samantha. The fastest growing form of segregation in this country is age segregation, that is people over 55 living in age segregated communities.

Whether they do this voluntarily or not, it is still age segregation and public money is being used to support a very bad public policy. My guess is that high blood pressure, the over use of prescription drugs, loneliness, and other symptoms are just some of the results of age segregation.

As my late mentor and friend Maggie Kuhn used to say: It's time to intergenerate and not age segregate. Dr. Jim Gambone (www.pointsofviewinc.com)

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