Racial discrimination, educational attainment, and biological dysregulation among midlife african american women

In the U.S., experiences of social stress associated with race and gender intersect to perpetuate and exacerbate poor health outcomes for women of color, particularly African Americans (Geronimus, 1996; Jackson, 2005; Jackson et al., 2001). African American (AA) women are disproportionately burdened by the simultaneous dysregulation of multiple physiologic systems (Chyu and Upchurch, 2011; Duru et al., 2012; Geronimus et al., 2006; Upchurch et al., 2015), commonly referred to as allostatic load or cumulative biological risk.

Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - September 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Amani M. Nuru-Jeter, Marilyn D. Thomas, Eli K. Michaels, Alexis N. Reeves, Uche Okoye, Melisa M. Price, Rebecca E. Hasson, S. Leonard Syme, David H. Chae Source Type: research