Association of racial residential segregation with all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) cohort study

Ashwini Joshi; Lauren E Wilson; Laura C Pinheiro; Suzanne Judd; Tomi Akinyemiju

doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101374

Association of racial residential segregation with all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) cohort study

SSM Popul Health. 2023 Mar 31:22:101374. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101374. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Authors

Ashwini Joshi¹, Lauren E Wilson¹, Laura C Pinheiro², Suzanne Judd³, Tomi Akinyemiju^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
³ Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
⁴ Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.

Abstract

•Increased racial residential segregation increased the risk of all-cause mortality among White participants.•Higher interaction lowered the risk of all-cause mortality among White participants.•Higher isolation lowered the risk of cancer mortality among Black participants.

Grants and funding

R01 CA263770/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States