Various authors have noted that interethnic group and intraethnic group racism are
significant stressors for many African Americans. As such, intergroup and intragroup racism …

To fully understand the differences present between various ethnic and racial groups, there
must be an understanding of the heterogeneity that is represented within a given …

Principal goals of the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Core Indicators Project are to
improve the care provided to ESRD patients and to identify categorical variability in …

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of
Health opened in 1995 to facilitate the advancement of research on social and behavioral …

Researchers have demonstrated that Black women exhibit a disproportionate risk of ill
health. We examined the relationship between psychosocial factors, including economic …

Research suggests that the academic performance and psychological adaptation of African-
American students on a predominantly White university setting is impacted by specific …

This study examined cardiovascular recovery from two standardized laboratory stressors in
68 healthy black and white normotensive women and men (mean age 33 years). Women …

Objective. In this study, we examined the effects of residency and gender on cardiovascular
reactivity to a speech stressor in 50 rural Zimbabweans (24 males, 26 females) and 47 …

This study evaluated the effect of family conflict interactions on cardiovascular responses of
African American hypertensive and normotensive mother-daughter dyads and determined …

A gap in the literature on social support among middle-aged and older African Americans
and limitations in scales measuring social support among this group indicate a need for a …