ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2018
Stress Measured by Allostatic Load Score Varies by Reason for Immigration: The Africans in America Study.
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- Chronic Physiological Dysregulation and Changes in Depressive Symptoms: Testing Sex and Race as Vulnerability Factors.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Disparities in Allostatic Load Among Different Races: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Review
- Belonging Exacerbates the Relations Between Racial Climate Stress and Physiological Dysregulation.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Combined Effects of Multiple Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Exposure on Allostatic Load Using Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Association of Combined Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Metals with Allostatic Load Using Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Association of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Serum Levels and Allostatic Load by Country of Birth and the Length of Time in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Sleep and Economic Status Are Linked to Daily Life Stress in African-Born Blacks Living in America.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Diabetes Risk and Control in Multi-ethnic US Immigrant Populations.Current diabetes reports · 2020Review
- Stress Measured by Allostatic Load Varies by Reason for Immigration, Age at Immigration, and Number of Children: The Africans in America Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Body adiposity measured by bioelectrical impedance is an alternative to dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry in black Africans: The Africans in America Study.Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2020Article
- Black Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean Have Similar Rates of Diabetes but Africans Are Less Obese: the New York City Community Health Survey 2009-2013.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2019Article
- A1C Underperforms as a Diagnostic Test in Africans Even in the Absence of Nutritional Deficiencies, Anemia and Hemoglobinopathies: Insight From the Africans in America Study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Article
- Do current guidelines for waist circumference apply to black Africans? Prediction of insulin resistance by waist circumference among Africans living in America.BMJ global health · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveReason for immigration as a biological stress has not been studied in Africans. Our goal was to determine in African immigrants, if biological stress measured by allostatic load score (ALS) varies by reason for immigration.
methodsUsing an ALS which had been previously developed with the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data to assess stress due to racism and nativity, ALS was calculated in 85 African immigrants (67% male, age 42 ± 10 years). For confirmation, we tested five additional ALS also built from NHANES.
resultsThe two reasons for immigration which consistently had the lowest ALS were family reunification and lottery winner for self and immediate family. The other reasons for immigration such as study, asylum/refugee, and work had higher ALS. As reasons for immigration with the lowest ALS promoted family unity, they were combined (group 1) and the Africans who came for other reasons were combined (group 2). ALS in group 1 vs. group 2 was 1.96 ± 1.40 vs. 2.94 ± 1.87, P = 0.03.
conclusionsBiological stress varies by reason for immigration and appears to be mitigated by maintaining family unity. Overall, reason for immigration is an important biographical data likely to influence health.
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