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HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102800
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Crime; Violence; Policing; Neighborhood environment; Early childhood health; Blood pressure
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Gestational exposure to violent crime and racialized drug policing is associated with increased blood pressure in early childhood, specifically among children born to Black participants.
Gestational exposure to police-reported crime is associated with adverse birth outcomes, but no previous research has evaluated the effects of gestational crime exposure on early childhood health or attempted to disentangle the health effects of neighborhood crime from the effects of neighborhood policing. Using data from 672 Newborn Epigenetics Study participants, we evaluate the effects of gestational exposure to violent crime and racialized drug policing on early childhood blood pressure. We demonstrate that violence and drug policing are consistently associated with increased blood pressure among children born to Black participants but not White or Latinx participants.
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