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OBJECTIVE:This study examined the relationship between volunteer activity and hypertension, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, renal failure, and cognitive impairment. METHOD:Employing data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimated regression models of hypertension status that include volunteer activity and psychosocial and health behavior risk factors for middle-aged and older persons. RESULTS:Multivariate analyses showed volunteers had lower hypertension risk and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure than nonvolunteers and that a threshold effect was present, whereby a modest amount of volunteer time commitment (but not a high amount) was associated with lower risk of hypertension. We did neither find support that psychosocial and health behaviors mediated this relationship nor find support for a moderating effect of volunteering for the relationships among health behaviors and hypertension. DISCUSSION:The results of this study indicate that research is needed to determine what mediates the relationship between volunteering and hypertension.
journal_name
J Aging Healthjournal_title
Journal of aging and healthauthors
Burr JA,Tavares J,Mutchler JEdoi
10.1177/0898264310388272subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-02-01 00:00:00pages
24-51issue
1eissn
0898-2643issn
1552-6887pii
0898264310388272journal_volume
23pub_type
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