journal of men's health
Volume 6, Issue 4 , Pages 325-330 , December 2009

Cutting cardiovascular risk in barbershops

  • Deborah S. Main, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Elizabeth M. Whitley, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Director, Denver Health Community Voices, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, USA
    • ,
  • Pedro Arévalo Rincon

      Affiliations

    • Program Manager, Denver Health Community Voices, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, USA
    • ,
  • Joe McGloin, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, USA
    • ,
  • Mark A. Hocker

      Affiliations

    • Community Health Worker, Denver Health Community Voices, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, USA
    • ,
  • Stanley K. Thomas

      Affiliations

    • Community Health Worker, Denver Health Community Voices, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, USA
    • ,
  • Patti Iwasaki, MSW

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, USA

Received 29 May 2009 ,Revised 6 July 2009 ,Accepted 27 July 2009.

References 

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Burden of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors: National and State Perspectives 2004. Atlanta, GA: CDC; 2004. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/burdenbook2004.(Accessed July 28, 2008).
  2. Clark LT. Issues in minority health: atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease in African Americans. Med Clin North Am. 2005;89:977–1001
  3. Yusef S, Hawken S, Ounpuu S, Dans T, Avezum A, Lanas F, et al. Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case control study. Lancet. 2004;364:937–952
  4. Greenland P, Knoll MD, Stamler J, Neaton JD, Dyer AR, Garside DB, et al. Major risk factors as antecedents of fatal and nonfatal coronary heart disease events. JAMA. 2003;290:891–897
  5. Department of Public Health and Environment. Health Disparities and Cardiovascular Disease. Denver, CO: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; 2005.
  6. Kurian AK, Cardarelli KM. Racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systemic review. Ethn Dis. 2007;12:143–152
  7. Watson KE. Cardiovascular risk reduction among African Americans: a call to action. J Natl Med Assoc. 2008;100:18–26
  8. Clark LT, Ferdinand KC, Flack JM, Gavin JR, Hall WD, Kumanyika SK, et al. Coronary heart disease in African Americans. Heart Dis. 2001;3:97–108
  9. Campbell MK, Demark-Wahnefried W, Symons M, Kalsbeek WD, Dodds J, Cowan A, et al. Fruit and vegetable consumption and prevention of cancer: the Black churches united for better health project. Am J Public Health. 1999;89:1390–1396
  10. Yanek LR, Becker DM, Moy TF, Gittelsohn J, Koffman DM. Project Joy: faith based cardiovascular health promotion for African American women. Public Health Rep. 2001;116(Suppl 1):68–81
  11. Magnus M. Barbershop nutrition education. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2004;36:45–46
  12. Lewis YR, Shain L, Quinn SC, Turner K, Moore T. Building community trust: lessons from an STD/HIV peer educator program with African American Barbers and Beauticians. Health. 2002;3(2):133–143
  13. Hess PL, Reingold JS, Ruger E, Clark S, Griffin GW, Leonard D, et al. Efficacy of a barbershop-based intervention to improve the treatment and control of hypertension in African American men. Am J Hypertens. 2004;17:198A–199A[Abstract P-451]
  14. Ferdinand K. Lessons learned from the healthy heart community prevention project in reaching the African American population. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 1997;3:366–371
  15. Hess PL, Reingold JS, Jones J, Fellman MA, Knowles P, Ravenell JE, et al. Barbershops as hypertension detection, referral and follow-up centers for black men. Hypertension. 2007;49:1040–1046
  16. Grundy SM, Balady GJ, Criqui MH, Fletcher G, Greenland P, Hiratzka LF, et al. Primary prevention of coronary heart disease: guidance from Framingham: a statement for healthcare professionals from the AHA Task Force on Risk Reduction American Heart Association. Circulation. 1998;97(18):1876–1887
  17. Wilson P, D’Agostino R, Levy D, Belanger AM, Silbershatz H, Kannel WB. Prediction of coronary heart disease using risk factor categories. Circulation. 1998;97:1837–1847
  18. Grundy S, Pasternak R, Greenland P, Smith S, Fuster V. Assessment of cardiovascular risk by use of multiple risk factor assessment equations: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. Circulation. 1999;100:1481–1492
  19. Fedder D, Chang R, Curry S, Nichols G. The effectiveness of a community health worker program on healthcare utilization of west Baltimore City Medicaid patients with or without hypertension. Ethn Dis. 2003;13:22–27
  20. Morisky D, Lees N, Sharif C, Liu KY, Ward HJ. Reducing disparities in hypertension control – a community-based hypertension control project for an ethnically diverse population. Health Promotion Pract. 2002;3:264–275
  21. Dennison C, Hill MN, Bone LR, Levine DM. Comprehensive hypertension care in underserved urban black men – high follow-up rates and blood pressure improvement over 60 months. Circulation. 2003;108(17):IV-381
  22. Levine D, Bone L, Hill M, Stallings R, Gelber AC, Barker A, et al. The effectiveness of a community academic health center partnership to decrease the level of blood pressure in an urban African-American population. Ethn Dis. 2003;13:354–361
  23. Alcalay R, Alvarado M, Balcazar H, Newman E, Huerta E. Salud para su corazon: a community-based Latino cardiovascular disease prevention and outreach model. J Community Health. 1999;24(5):359–379
  24. Levine D, Becker D, Bone L. Narrowing the gap in health status of minority populations: a community-academic medical center partnership. Am J Prev Med. 1992;5:321

PII: S1875-6867(09)00326-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jomh.2009.07.006

journal of men's health
Volume 6, Issue 4 , Pages 325-330 , December 2009

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution