ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2020
Everyday Discrimination and Kidney Function Among Older Adults: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study.
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- Associations Between Change in Kidney Functioning, Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Health Indicators in the Health and Retirement Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023Article
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- Attributions for Everyday Discrimination and All-Cause Mortality Risk Among Older Black Women: A Latent Class Analysis Approach.The Gerontologist · 2023Article
- Racial Discrimination and Multimorbidity Among Older Adults in Colombia: A National Data Analysis.Preventing chronic disease · 2023Article
- Racial inequality in functional trajectories between Black and White U.S. veterans.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
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- Multiple Reasons for Perceived Everyday Discrimination and All-Cause Mortality Risk Among Older Black Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022Article
- Rationing, racism and justice: advancing the debate around 'colourblind' COVID-19 ventilator allocation.Journal of medical ethics · 2022Article
- Life course pathways from parental education to age-related decrements in kidney function among Black and white American adults.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Does the Chronic Stress of Everyday Discrimination or Race Itself Better Predict AD Onset Risk?Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
- Allostatic Load, Income, and Race Among Black and White Men in the United States.American journal of men's healthArticle
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backgroundWith advancing age, there is an increase in the time of and number of experiences with psychosocial stressors that may lead to the initiation and/or progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Our study tests whether one type of experience, everyday discrimination, predicts kidney function among middle and older adults.
methodsThe data were from 10 973 respondents (ages 52-100) in the 2006/2008 Health and Retirement Study, an ongoing biennial nationally representative survey of older adults in the United States. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) derives from the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation. Our indicator of everyday discrimination is drawn from self-reports from respondents. Ordinary Least Squared regression (OLS) models with robust standard errors are applied to test hypotheses regarding the link between everyday discrimination and kidney function.
resultsEveryday discrimination was associated with poorer kidney function among respondents in our study. Respondents with higher everyday discrimination scores had lower eGFR after adjusting for demographic characteristics (B = -1.35, p < .05), and while attenuated, remained significant (B = -0.79, p < .05) after further adjustments for clinical, health behavior, and socioeconomic covariates.
conclusionsOur study suggests everyday discrimination is independently associated with lower eGFR. These findings highlight the importance of psychosocial factors in predicting insufficiency in kidney function among middle-aged and older adults.
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