hypertension three years later and higher end organ damage related to hypertension.99 Incarceration is likely to be what has been called a “disorderly transitional” stressful event in which this exposure creates role changes that are non-normative, undesired, involuntary and sometimes irreversible.100 Such events are critical in creating social disadvantage and placing an individual on a trajectory of low education, low job prospects, and low income and that often lead to the proliferation of other stressors. These examples emphasize the importance of fully characterizing the multiple aspects of the social context that may have health consequences.
