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. 1981 May;71(5):532-4.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.71.5.532.

Skin color and education effects on blood pressure

J E Keil, S H Sandifer, C B Loadholt, E Boyle Jr

Skin color and education effects on blood pressure

J E Keil et al. Am J Public Health. 1981 May.

Abstract

This study reports that education effects but not skin color effects were associated with blood pressure and the incidence of hypertension in a cohort of Black females in Charleston, South Carolina, observed over the period 1960-1975. The authors suggest that skin color may be a secondary (non-causal) associate of blood pressure in Blacks.

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