ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2018
BMI Trajectories in Adulthood: The Intersection of Skin Color, Gender, and Age among African Americans.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Pooled it
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- Skin color stratification and sleep duration: Evidence from a nationally representative sample.Sleep health · 2026Article
- Goal-Striving Stress and Bodily Pain among Working-Age Black and White Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 Diagnosis on Weight Trajectories of Children in the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 Diagnosis on Weight Trajectories of Children in the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Aging, Race, and Health Disparities: Recommendations From the Research Centers Collaborative Network.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Mental Health across the Early Life Course at the Intersection of Race, Skin Tone, and School Racial Context.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2024Article
- Religious Involvement and Allostatic Resilience: Findings from a Community Study of Black and White Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Disrupting Monolithic Thinking about Black Women and Their Mental Health: Does Stress Exposure Explain Intersectional Ethnic, Nativity, and Socioeconomic Differences?Social problems · 2022Article
- Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status.Demography · 2022Article
- "Moving on Up? Neighborhood Status and Racism-Related Distress among Black Americans".Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2022Article
- Skin Tone, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender Differences in BMI among New US Immigrants.Ethnicity & disease · 2022Article
- Disparities by Skin Color Among Young African-American Women.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2021Article
- Life-course trajectories of body mass index from adolescence to old age: Racial and educational disparities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- A tale of two generations: Maternal skin color and adverse birth outcomes in Black/African American women.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study addresses three research questions critical to understanding if and how skin color shapes health among African Americans: (1) Does skin color predict trajectories of body mass index (BMI) among African Americans across ages 32 to 55? (2) To what extent is this relationship contingent on gender? (3) Do sociodemographic, psychosocial, and behavioral factors explain the skin color-BMI relationship? Using data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study and growth curve models, results indicate that dark-skinned women have the highest BMI across adulthood compared to all other skin color-gender groups. BMI differences between dark- and lighter-skinned women remain stable from ages 32 to 55. Among men, a BMI disadvantage emerges and widens between light- and dark-skinned men and their medium-skinned counterparts. Observed sociodemographic characteristics, stressors, and health behaviors do not explain these associations. Overall, findings suggest that skin color- and gender-specific experiences likely play an important role in generating BMI inequality.
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