Racism and health: evidence and needed research

DR Williams, JA Lawrence… - Annual review of public …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the
multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in …

The accelerated aging phenotype: the role of race and social determinants of health on aging

NN Hooten, NL Pacheco, JT Smith, MK Evans - Ageing Research Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The pursuit to discover the fundamental biology and mechanisms of aging within the context
of the physical and social environment is critical to designing interventions to prevent and …

[HTML][HTML] Back to the future: achieving health equity through health informatics and digital health

LPC Brewer, KL Fortuna, C Jones… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2020 - mhealth.jmir.org
The rapid proliferation of health informatics and digital health innovations has revolutionized
clinical and research practices. There is no doubt that these fields will continue to have …

Update on hypertension in African-Americans

C Maraboto, KC Ferdinand - Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 2020 - Elsevier
Uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) in the US is particularly prevalent and devastating among
black individuals, who disproportionately suffer the consequences of this condition to a …

Racial/ethnic discrimination and cardiometabolic diseases: a systematic review

O Agbonlahor, N DeJarnett, JL Hart… - Journal of Racial and …, 2024 - Springer
Introduction Racial discrimination has been identified as a risk factor for cardiometabolic
diseases, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among racial/ethnic minority groups; …

Stress and achievement of cardiovascular health metrics: the American heart association life's simple 7 in blacks of the Jackson heart study

LPC Brewer, N Redmond, JP Slusser… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Ideal cardiovascular health metrics (defined by the American Heart Association
Life's Simple 7 [LS7]) are suboptimal among blacks, which results in high risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Intersectional effects of racial and gender discrimination on cardiovascular health vary among black and white women and men in the CARDIA study

GS Bey, B Jesdale, S Forrester, SD Person… - SSM-population health, 2019 - Elsevier
Testing hypotheses from the emerging Identity Pathology (IP) framework, we assessed race-
gender differences in the effects of reporting experiences of racial and gender discrimination …

Multiple reasons for perceived everyday discrimination and all-cause mortality risk among older black adults

RJ Cobb, CM Sheehan, P Louie… - The Journals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background This study assessed whether reporting multiple reasons for perceived everyday
discrimination was associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality risk among older …

Discrimination experiences and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

WR Lawrence, GS Jones, JA Johnson… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Epidemiologic studies have documented the associations between
experiences of discrimination and adverse health outcomes. However, the relationship …

Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health in Black Americans: Exploring Inflammation as a Mechanism and Perceived Control as a Protective Factor

CC Merritt, KA Muscatell - Psychosomatic Medicine, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective Inflammation may be an integral physiological mechanism through which
discrimination impacts cardiovascular health and contributes to racial health disparities …