Frequency of Attendance at Religious Services, Hypertension, and Blood Pressure: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
| Autor: | R. Frank Gillum, Deborah D. Ingram |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Diastole Blood Pressure NHANES III Hypertension prevalence Prevalence medicine Humans Applied Psychology Hypertension treatment Blood pressure level business.industry Attendance Middle Aged Health Surveys Religion Psychiatry and Mental health Blood pressure Family medicine Hypertension Female business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Psychosomatic Medicine. 68:382-385 |
| ISSN: | 0033-3174 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/01.psy.0000221253.90559.dd |
| Popis: | To test the hypothesis that frequency of attendance at religious services is inversely related to prevalence of hypertension and blood pressure level.In the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 14,475 American women and men aged 20 years and over reported frequency of attendance at religious services, history of hypertension treatment, and had blood pressure (BP) measured.The percentage reporting attending religious services weekly (52 times/yr) was 29 and more than weekly (52 times/yr) was 10. Prevalence of hypertension (systolic BPor = 140 or diastolic BPor = 90 mm Hg or current use of blood pressure medication) was 21% in never at attenders, 19% in those attending less than weekly (1-51 times/yr), 26% in those attending weekly, and 26% in those attending more than weekly (p.01). After controlling for sociodemographic and health variables, religious attendance was associated with reduced prevalence compared with nonattendance, significantly so for weekly (beta = -0.24; 95% confidence interval [CL], -0.37 to -0.11; p.01) and more than weekly (beta = -0.33; 95% CL, -0.60 to -0.07; p.05). No significant effect modification by gender or age was observed. Compared with never attenders, persons attending weekly had a systolic BP 1.46 mm Hg (95% CL 2.33, 0.58 mm Hg, p.01) lower and persons attending52 times/yr had systolic BP 3.03 mm Hg (95% CL 4.34, 1.72 mm Hg, p.01) lower. No significant effect modification by gender was observed; these estimates are adjusted for a significant interaction between age and less than weekly attendance (1-51 times) (p.05).Compared with never attending, attendance at religious services weekly or more than weekly was associated with somewhat lower adjusted hypertension prevalence and blood pressure in a large national survey. |
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