Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
J Relig Health. 2012 Jun;51(2):310-22. doi: 10.1007/s10943-010-9346-7.
The relationships between race/ethnicity and hypertension or blood pressure (BP), as well as frequency of religious services attendance and hypertension/BP are well documented. However, the association between these three factors is poorly understood. Using national data, this interrelationship was assessed in non-Hispanic whites and blacks, and Mexican-Americans (n = 12,488). Compared to those who never attended services, whites who attended services weekly had lower odds of hypertension, as did blacks who attended more than weekly. There was no relationship between attendance and hypertension among Mexican-Americans. Attendance was inversely related to systolic BP for all groups, but more so for whites and blacks compared to Mexican-Americans. These results further demonstrate the benefits of increased attendance at religious services on hypertension/BP, but suggest that these benefits were not as advantageous for all.
种族/民族与高血压或血压（BP）之间的关系，以及宗教服务的频率与高血压/血压之间的关系都有相关记录。然而，这三个因素之间的关联尚不清楚。本研究使用全国性数据，在非西班牙裔白人和黑人和墨西哥裔美国人（n=12488）中评估了这三个因素之间的相互关系。与从不参加宗教服务的人相比，每周参加宗教服务的白人患高血压的几率较低，每周参加宗教服务超过一次的黑人也是如此。而墨西哥裔美国人的宗教服务参与与高血压之间则没有关系。所有组的宗教服务参与与收缩压呈反比关系，但与墨西哥裔美国人相比，白人和黑人的关系更为密切。这些结果进一步表明，增加参加宗教服务对高血压/血压有益，但这一益处并非对所有人都有利。
