Fruit and vegetable accessibility as a risk factor for hypertension in blacks living in DeKalb & Fulton County, GA: A comparative case study Öffentlichkeit
Mann, Natasha Monts (2016)
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Abstract
Hypertension is a risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, and a vast number of other related cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke rates alone are disproportionally higher for Blacks. A healthy diet has been proven to lower blood pressure and hypertension (HTN) rates in all people regardless of race or socio-economic status. Blacks are a vulnerable population to HTN due to the fact that they develop high blood pressure earlier in life and tend to have higher mortality rates than any other race. Access to healthy and fresh food has been shown to have an effect on eating behaviors. The impact of location of food stores and its influence diet and hypertension health status still remains unclear. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the correlation between food accessibility and its affect in hypertension rates in the Black community living in DeKalb and Fulton counties. Data was obtained using the U.S. Census Bureau database to gather data for population demographics. A list of businesses where people can buy food in DeKalb and Fulton County was compiled using the SNAP Retail Locator. The final list of stores was plotted on a map via GIS technology. The relative risk was calculated to determine the probability of developing hypertension or a cardiovascular disease for those living in a "low" or "no" accessibility area compared to the probability of the event happening in the population that lives in a "moderate" or "high" accessibility area. The results show there were slight associations between hypertension prevalence and food accessibility for DeKalb county (RR= 1.004). The opposite was found for DeKalb County's cardiovascular morbidity relative risk factor (RR = 0.5367). There was no significance between fruit and vegetable accessibility and hypertension rates in Fulton County. However, there was an association between cardiovascular related deaths and food accessibility (RR = 1.0002) for Fulton County. The results also confirm that there are fewer major grocery retailers located in predominately Black neighborhoods in DeKalb and Fulton County.
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Introduction..........................................Page 1
Chapter II: Literature Review..................................Page 4
Chapter III: Methods..............................................Page 16
Chapter IV: Results................................................Page 20
Chapter V: Discussion............................................Page 24
Figures..................................................................Page 31
Figure 4.1..............................................................Page 31
Figure 4.2..............................................................Page 31
Figure 4.3..............................................................Page 32
Figure 4.4..............................................................Page 32
Figure 4.5..............................................................Page 33
Figure 4.6..............................................................Page 34
Tables...................................................................Page 35
Table 4A................................................................Page 35
Table 4B................................................................Page 36
Table 4C................................................................Page 37
Table 4D................................................................Page 38
Table 4E................................................................Page 39
Appendices............................................................Page 40
Bibliography..........................................................Page 47
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