ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2021
Racial Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Obesity in Collegiate African American Women.
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- Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence and moderators of depression symptoms among black individuals in Western Countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis among 1.3 million people in 421 studies.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- The EMPOWER program: a history and guide for increasing diversity using integrated research and education.Advances in physiology education · 2024Article
- Association of Racial Discrimination With Adiposity in Children and Adolescents.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Obesity among African American people in the United States: A review.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Review
- Towards the multileveled and processual conceptualisation of racialised individuals in biomedical research.Synthese · 2023Article
- Racism-Related Experiences and Adiposity: Findings From the Black Women's Experiences Living With Lupus (BeWELL) Study.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate relationships among racial discrimination, explicit racial identity, and obesity in young collegiate African American (AA) women aged 18-25.
designResearchers recruited 136 women who self-identified as AA from a large Midwestern university. Racial discrimination (RD) was measured using lifetime overt experiences of discrimination, recent microaggressions, and vicarious RD directed towards close others. Explicit racial identity included dimensions of private regard, public regard, and centrality. Generalized obesity (elevated body mass index) and abdominal obesity (increased fat distribution in the midsection) were measured biometrically using kg/m
resultsAfter controlling for adverse life events and income, overt RD, recent microaggressions, and private regard directly accounted for variance in both BMI and waist circumference. Public regard and centrality moderated relationships between RD variables and waist circumference.
conclusionsRD and racial identity accounted for up to 13% of variance in BMI and waist circumference in main effects models among young collegiate AA women. While obesity is a multifactorial phenomenon, racial discrimination and racial identity may affect observed racial disparities in obesity rates among young women.
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