Charlemagne-Badal Sherma J, Lee Jerry W
Center for Leadership in Health Systems, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, 24951 North Circle Dr. Nichol Hall Room 1105, Loma Linda, CA, 92350, USA.
Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle, and Disease Prevention, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, 24951 North Circle Dr. Nichol Hall Room 1313, Loma Linda, CA, 92350, USA.
J Relig Health. 2016 Apr;55(2):709-28. doi: 10.1007/s10943-015-0104-8.
Seventh-day Adventists have been noted for their unique lifestyle, religious practices and longevity. However, we know little about how religion is directly related to health in this group. Specifically, we know nothing about how religious social support is related to hypertension. Using data from the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study, we carried out a cross-sectional study of 9581 and a prospective study of 5720 North American Seventh-day Adventists examining new 534 cases of hypertension occurring up to 4 years later. We used binary logistic regression analyses to examine study hypotheses. Of the religious social support variables, in both the cross-sectional and prospective study only anticipated support significantly predicted hypertension, but the relationship was mediated by BMI. There were no significant race or gender differences. The favorable relationships between anticipated support and hypertension appear to be mediated by BMI and are an indication of how this dimension of religion combined with lifestyle promotes good health, specifically, reduced risk of hypertension.
基督复临安息日会因其独特的生活方式、宗教习俗和长寿而闻名。然而，我们对宗教在这个群体中如何直接与健康相关知之甚少。具体而言，我们对宗教社会支持与高血压之间的关系一无所知。利用生物心理社会宗教与健康研究的数据，我们对9581名北美基督复临安息日会信徒进行了横断面研究，并对5720名信徒进行了前瞻性研究，观察了4年后新出现的534例高血压病例。我们使用二元逻辑回归分析来检验研究假设。在宗教社会支持变量中，在横断面研究和前瞻性研究中，只有预期支持显著预测了高血压，但这种关系是由体重指数（BMI）介导的。没有显著的种族或性别差异。预期支持与高血压之间的良好关系似乎是由BMI介导的，这表明宗教的这一方面与生活方式相结合如何促进健康——具体而言，降低高血压风险。
