HypertensionCohort study
Drivers of Black-White Disparities in Hypertension Risk After Pregnancy: Findings From CARDIA
- longitudinal cohort study
- Cox proportional hazards models with time-varying covariates
Authors' conclusion
Parous Black women face substantially higher hypertension rates than White women, persisting after accounting for traditional risk factors, female-specific risk factors, and SDoH.
Study context
- Population
- Parous individuals in CARDIA without hypertension before their first pregnancyBlack women 924 · White women 729
- Participants
- 1,653 individuals
- Exposure
- Black-White disparity in hypertension following pregnancy
- Black womenn = 924
- White womenn = 729reference
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Hypertension incidence
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Median age at onset
| Outcome | hazard ratio (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|
| Hypertension risk after adjustment · higher risk in Black women after adjustment | 2.72 (2.17–3.41) | |
| 0.20.5125Hazard ratio (log scale) |
Percentage of disparity explained, following traditional risk factors
- individual-level social drivers of health (SDoH)
- 7.52%
- female-specific factors
- 2.26%
- structural-level SDoH
- 1.50%
Original publication
Drivers of Black-White Disparities in Hypertension Risk After Pregnancy: Findings From CARDIA. Circ Popul Health Outcomes. Published 9 October 2026. doi:10.1161/circoutcomes.126.013605
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it