ArticleDemography2019
New Evidence of Skin Color Bias and Health Outcomes Using Sibling Difference Models: A Research Note.
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- Beware of the phony horserace between genes and environments.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2023Article
- Perceptions of Prehospital Care for Patients With Limited English Proficiency Among Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- How Skin Tone Influences Relationships Between Discrimination, Psychological Distress, and Self-Rated Mental Health Among Older African Americans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- Skin Tone and Perceived Discrimination: Health and Aging Beyond the Binary in NSHAP 2015.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Perceived colorism and lifetime psychiatric disorders among Black American adults: findings from the National Survey of American Life.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
- Social determinants and cardiovascular care: A focus on vulnerable populations and the Jamaica experience.FASEB bioAdvances · 2021Article
- Insulin Resistance, Serum Calcium and Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Study of a Multiracial Population, and a Similarity Assessment of Results from a Single-Race Population's Study.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021Article
- Darker skin color is associated with a lower likelihood of smoking cessation among males but not females.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Article
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Abstract
In this research note, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to determine whether darker skin tone predicts hypertension among siblings using a family fixed-effects analytic strategy. We find that even after we account for common family background and home environment, body mass index, age, sex, and outdoor activity, darker skin color significantly predicts hypertension incidence among siblings. In a supplementary analysis using newly released genetic data from Add Health, we find no evidence that our results are biased by genetic pleiotropy, whereby differences in alleles among siblings relate to coloration and directly to cardiovascular health simultaneously. These results add to the extant evidence on color biases that are distinct from those based on race alone and that will likely only heighten in importance in an increasingly multiracial environment as categorization becomes more complex.
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