Observational studyJournal of psychosomatic research2016
Black-white disparities in the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic illness.
Observational study in Journal of psychosomatic research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- "I'm Black and I'm Stressed": An Exploratory Literature Review on Stress and Coping Mechanisms Among African Americans, Afro-Caribbean, and African Immigrants in the USA.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Review
- Geographic differences in the magnitude of black-white disparities in having obesity.Obesity science & practice · 2023Article
- Hypothalamus and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Prevalence, Severity and Burden of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Black Men and Women Across the Adult Life span.Journal of aging and health · 2022Article
- An Open-Source Privacy-Preserving Large-Scale Mobile Framework for Cardiovascular Health Monitoring and Intervention Planning With an Urban African American Population of Young Adults: User-Centered Design Approach.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Racial Difference in the Relationship Between Health and Happiness in the United States.Psychology research and behavior management · 2020Article
- The association of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder with the metabolic syndrome in a multi-ethnic cohort: the HELIUS study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Article
- Large decrease in posttraumatic stress disorder severity and cardiovascular disease outcomes.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
objectiveNon-Latino blacks experience a higher proportion of chronic illness and associated disabilities than non-Latino whites. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a greater risk of chronic illness, although few studies have investigated whether the interaction of PTSD with racial disparities may lead to a greater risk of chronic illness among blacks with PTSD than among whites with PTSD.
methodsWe evaluated data from the population-based National Survey of American Life and the National Comorbidity Survey Replication to investigate the association between race, lifetime PTSD and self-reported chronic illness. Weighted linear and Poisson regression models assessed differences in the magnitude of association between PTSD and chronic illness by race on both the additive and multiplicative scales.
resultsThe magnitude of the association between lifetime PTSD and diabetes was greater among blacks (RD 0.07, 95% CI 0.02, 0.11; RR 1.9, 95% CI 1.4, 2.5) than whites (RD 0.004, 95% CI -0.02, 0.03; RR 1.2, 95% CI 0.7, 1.9) on the additive (p=0.017) scale. The magnitude of the association between lifetime PTSD and heart disease was greater among blacks (RD 0.09, 95% CI 0.05, 0.13) than whites (RD 0.04, 95% CI 0.01, 0.07) on the additive scale at a level approaching significance (p=0.051).
conclusionA lifetime history of PTSD was associated with a significantly greater risk of diabetes among blacks as compared to whites. These findings suggest that continuous exposure to racial inequalities may be associated with a greater risk of PTSD-related health sequela.
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