Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Health Place. 2022 May;75:102800. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102800. Epub 2022 Apr 8.
Gestational exposure to police-reported crime is associated with adverse birth outcomes, but no previous research has evaluated the effects of gestational crime exposure on early childhood health or attempted to disentangle the health effects of neighborhood crime from the effects of neighborhood policing. Using data from 672 Newborn Epigenetics Study participants, we evaluate the effects of gestational exposure to violent crime and racialized drug policing on early childhood blood pressure. We demonstrate that violence and drug policing are consistently associated with increased blood pressure among children born to Black participants but not White or Latinx participants.
孕期接触警方报告的犯罪与不良生育结局有关，但以前没有研究评估孕期犯罪暴露对儿童早期健康的影响，也没有试图厘清邻里犯罪对健康的影响和邻里警务的影响。我们利用 672 名新生儿表观遗传学研究参与者的数据，评估了孕期接触暴力犯罪和种族化毒品警务对儿童早期血压的影响。我们的研究表明，暴力和毒品警务与黑人参与者所生孩子的血压升高始终相关，但与白人或拉丁裔参与者所生孩子的血压升高无关。
