ArticleCultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology2017
Examining the association between perceived discrimination and heart rate variability in African Americans.
Article in Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 54 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Our Voices Matter: Racial Justice Activism Intervention to Address Structural Racism and Prevent Depression in Black and Latinx Youth
Rise & Thrive: Community-Engagement Intervention to Address Chronic Stress and Prevent Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults
Who cites it
54 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- The physiological cost of coping: a systematic review and meta-analysis on discrimination and heart rate variability.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Pooled it
- Parental Preconception Adversity and Offspring Health in African Americans: A Systematic Review of Intergenerational Studies.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Links between discrimination and cardiovascular health among socially stigmatized groups: A systematic review.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- A Web-Based Virtual Environment Behavioral Intervention as Cardiovascular Disease and Metabolic Disease Prevention Education in Persons With HIV: Evaluation of the LEARN Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Perceptions of HIV-Related Comorbidities and Usability of a Virtual Environment for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Education in Sexual Minority Men With HIV: Formative Phases of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- Ethnic Discrimination and Heart-Focused Anxiety Among Hispanic Young Adults: Effects on Anxious Arousal, Depression, and Fatigue.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Prenatal substance exposure and early childhood adversity: implications for child autonomic functioning at early school-age.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Guidelines for rigor and reproducibility of heart rate variability within human cardiovascular research.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026Review
- Heart rate variability and emotion regulation: Multiethnic differences in reappraisal and suppression.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Salivary cortisol reactivity to stress in pregnancy: A scoping review.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Lived experiences and perspectives of persons with conditions marked by autonomic dysfunction.PloS one · 2026Article
- Rethinking Resting Heart Rate Variability: No Evidence of Association With Self-Regulation and Psychopathology in a Cross-Sectional Study Among Adolescents in Colombia, Nepal, and South Africa.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Cumulative hardship: the role of perceived injustice in linking war-related trauma and discrimination with mental health.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Article
- An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well-Being in Black American Families.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Review
- Ageism in a health-related context: the physiological, psychological, and behavioral impacts of subtle age discrimination on older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Discrimination and Heart Rate Variability Responses in a Diverse Sample of Young Adults.Journal of psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Different association patterns of emotion regulation and heart rate variability in older and younger adults.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Prior exposure to racial discrimination and patterns of acute parasympathetic nervous system responses to a race-related stress task among Black adults.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Resting Heart Rate and Associations With Clinical Measures From the Project Baseline Health Study: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
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Abstract
objectivePrevious research attempting to delineate the role of discrimination in racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension has focused largely on blood pressure, which is chiefly governed by the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. Consequently, few studies have considered the role of the parasympathetic branch and particularly its regulation of the heart via the vagus nerve.
methodIn the present cross-sectional study, we employed hierarchical linear regressions to examine associations between perceived ethnic discrimination and resting heart rate variability (HRV), an important biomarker of parasympathetic cardiac modulation and overall health, in a sample (N = 103) of young, healthy African American participants (58% female, M
resultsAfter accounting for demographic factors and health status characteristics, lifetime discrimination emerged as an inverse predictor of HRV. When subdomains of discrimination were considered, discrimination attributable to threats or actual acts of aggression was also predictive of lower HRV.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that a greater lifetime burden of discrimination and discriminatory harassment and/or assault is associated with lower resting HRV in African Americans. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of past, present and emerging research emphasizing biological linkages between discrimination and health. (PsycINFO Database Record
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