Perceived discrimination and health-related quality-of-life: gender differences among older African Americans

SL Coley, CF Mendes de Leon, EC Ward… - Quality of Life …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Emerging data suggest that African-American women may fare worse than African-
American men in health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL). Perceived discrimination is an …

The social patterning of vicarious discrimination: Implications for health equity

EB Quinn, JD Ross, PQ Boston, CJ Mulligan… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Most research on discrimination and health operationalizes discrimination as
direct individual experiences. Here, we examine the social patterning of vicarious …

Cardiovascular health disparities in racial and other underrepresented groups: initial results from the all of us research program

JN Acosta, AC Leasure, CP Both, N Szejko… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background All of Us is a novel research program that aims to accelerate research in
populations traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research. Our objective was to …

Lifetime discrimination burden, racial discrimination, and subclinical cerebrovascular disease among African Americans.

DL Beatty Moody, AD Taylor, DK Leibel… - Health …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Explore interactive relations of lifetime discrimination burden and racial
discrimination—chronic stressors among African Americans (AAs)—and age with MRI …

The effect of racial discrimination on mental and physical health: A propensity score weighting approach

S Chen, AB Mallory - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationale The preponderance of research documents the negative consequences of racial
discrimination for the mental and physical well-being across several racial/ethnic groups …

Racial and gender discrimination, early life factors, and chronic physical health conditions in midlife

JA McDonald, MB Terry, P Tehranifar - Women's Health Issues, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose Most studies of perceived discrimination have been cross-sectional and focused
primarily on mental rather than physical health conditions. We examined the associations of …

Chronic exposure to everyday discrimination and coronary artery calcification in African-American women: the SWAN Heart Study

TT Lewis, SA Everson-Rose, LH Powell… - Psychosomatic …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Background: Emerging evidence suggests that exposure to discrimination may be
associated with atherosclerosis in African-American women, although research in this area …

[HTML][HTML] Association between racial discrimination and health-related quality of life and the impact of social relationships

G Bergeron, N Lundy De La Cruz, LH Gould… - Quality of Life …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Interpersonal racial discrimination is associated with poor health. Social
relationships may moderate the impact of discrimination and represent modifiable behaviors …

Discrimination, mediating psychosocial or economic factors, and antihypertensive treatment: a 4-way decomposition analysis in the Health and Retirement Study

KD Sims, GD Batty, E Smit, PW Hystad… - American Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Untested psychosocial or economic factors mediate associations between perceived
discrimination and suboptimal antihypertensive therapy. This study included 2 waves of data …

Changes in waist circumference and body mass index in the US CARDIA cohort: fixed-effects associations with self-reported experiences of racial/ethnic …

TJ Cunningham, LF Berkman, I Kawachi… - Journal of biosocial …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Prior studies examining the association between self-reported experiences of racial/ethnic
discrimination and obesity have had mixed results and primarily been cross-sectional. This …