ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2016
Accelerated Health Declines among African Americans in the USA.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Tools for Assessing Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Underserved Young Adult Populations: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- The weathering hypothesis as an explanation for racial disparities in health: a systematic review.Annals of epidemiology · 2019Pooled it
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- Chronic conditions among transgender Medicare beneficiaries: Variation by race, ethnicity, and Medicaid dual-enrollment.Disability and health journal · 2025Article
- Intersectional inequities in maternal mortality: Examining the compounded risks for black birthing individuals with physical disabilities.Disability and health journal · 2025Article
- Biomarkers of racism-based stress injury: A feasibility and correlation study.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
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- A Comparison of 5 Measures of Accelerated Biological Aging and Their Association With Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The CARDIA Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Race Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence Among Older Men.International journal of aging & human development · 2024Article
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Abstract
The weathering hypothesis, an explanation for race disparities in the USA, asserts that the health of African Americans begin to deteriorate prematurely compared to whites as a consequence of long-term exposure to social and environmental risk factors. Using data from 2000-2009 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS), we sought to describe differences in age-related health outcomes in 619,130 African Americans and whites. Outcome measures included hypertension, diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. Using a mixed models approach to age-period-cohort analysis, we calculated age- and race-specific prevalence rates that accounted for the complex sampling design of NHIS. African Americans exhibited higher prevalence rates of hypertension, diabetes, and stroke than whites across all age groups. Consistent with the weathering hypothesis, African Americans exhibited equivalent prevalence rates for these three conditions 10 years earlier than whites. This suggests that African Americans are acquiring age-related conditions prematurely compared to whites.
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