Thread by @PaolaScommegna, #AfricanAmericans are dying at disproportionate rates from the #coronavirus #Covid19; Demographers have [...]

Paola Scommegna

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#AfricanAmericans are dying at disproportionate rates from the #coronavirus #Covid19; Demographers have been sounding the alarm about #healthdisparities for a long time. @nia_demography @mdhayward @adiezroux @DeatonAngus
@PRBdata 2013: https://assets.prb.org/pdf13/TodaysResearchAging28.pdf">https://assets.prb.org/pdf13/Tod...

Poorer quality health care in predominantly black communities may contribute to premature death, impacting all city residents. @DeatonAngus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12600354 ">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12...

Physicians who treat predominantly black patients appear to be less well trained and have less access to key clinical resources than those treating white patients @peterbachmd

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15295050 ">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15...

Hospitals that treat a large share of black patients tend to have access to fewer resources than those that treat mainly white patients @JonSkinner17

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16246963 ">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16...

Biological aging occurs faster for blacks than for whites even after adjusting for income, education, smoking, + physical activity. Evidence from newborns suggests role of life-time stress related to discrimination. @adiezroux https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713110/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

Race/ethnicity and telomere length in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Telomere length has emerged as a marker of exposure to oxidative stress and aging. Race/ethnic differences in telomere length have been infrequently investigated. Leucocyte telomere length (LTL) was...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713110/

Biological evidence suggests that black women age faster than white women: Stress related to discrimination and poverty play a role. Arline Geronimus of @UMich https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861506/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging?: A Novel Theory and First...

We hypothesize that black women experience accelerated biological aging in response to repeated or prolonged adaptation to subjective and objective stressors. Drawing on stress physiology and...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861506/

Low socioeconomic status during childhood increases the odds that older blacks have disabling and chronic health conditions; higher educational attainment buffers this effect. @mdhayward https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465758/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

Cumulative Childhood Adversity, Educational Attainment, and Active Life Expectancy Among U.S. Adults

Studies of the early-life origins of adult physical functioning and mortality have found that childhood health and socioeconomic context are important predictors, often irrespective of adult experi...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465758/

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