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ArticleEthnicity & health2020

The color of death: race, observed skin tone, and all-cause mortality in the United States.

Quincy Thomas Stewart, Ryon J Cobb, Verna M Keith

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Article in Ethnicity & health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Colorism and Sexual Health: A Rapid Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  3. Health Implications of Colorism: A Narrative Review of the Literature.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026
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  9. Exploring the associations between discrimination, coping, skin tone, and the psychosocial health of young adults of color.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  14. Skin Tone Matters: Racial Microaggressions and Delayed Prenatal Care.American journal of preventive medicine · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Quincy Thomas StewartSociology and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Ryon J CobbSchool of Social Work, The University of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA.
Verna M KeithSociology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Funding

Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research - RESEARCH CORE (REC)P30AG015281 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Amanda Toler Woodward · 1997 to 2026
$19.3M
USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography &Population HealthP30AG017265 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI JENNIFER A AILSHIRE · 1999 to 2026
$17.9M
RESEARCH TRAINING IN GERONTOLOGYT32AG000037 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI JENNIFER A AILSHIRE, EILEEN M CRIMMINS · 1985 to 2026
$13.2M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG015281NIA NIH HHS P30 AG017265NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000037NIMHD NIH HHS L60 MD014597
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cause of DeathSkin PigmentationAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBlack or African AmericanFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProportional Hazards ModelsRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited Stateshealth disparitiesmortalityRaceskin tone

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PMID29737188
PMCPMC6222008

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