ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2021
Racial Disparities in Health Among College-Educated African Americans: Can Attendance at Historically Black Colleges or Universities Reduce the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Midlife?
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- "We adjusted for race": now what? A systematic review of utilization and reporting of race in American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology, 2020-2021.Epidemiologic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Attending an Historically Black College or University and all-cause mortality in US Black adults.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Historically Black College or University Attendance and Cognition in US Black Adults.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Understanding the Impact of Psychosocial Barriers on Colorectal Cancer Knowledge in Emerging Adult Black Men.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2026Article
- The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics' Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids.Journal of health and social behavior · 2025Article
- Gaps in the usage and reporting of multiple imputation for incomplete data: findings from a scoping review of observational studies addressing causal questions.BMC medical research methodology · 2024Article
- Racial differences in associations between adverse childhood experiences and physical, mental, and behavioral health.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- The impact of attending historically Black colleges and universities on cognitive decline in Black adults: A longitudinal analysis in the KHANDLE and STAR cohorts.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2023Article
- Estimating the Long-Term Causal Effects of Attending Historically Black Colleges or Universities on Depressive Symptoms.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Education in the Jim Crow South and Black-White inequities in allostatic load among older adults.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Unlocking Population-Specific Treatments to Render Equitable Approaches and Management in Cardiovascular Disease: Development of a Situation-Specific Theory for African American Emerging Adults.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingArticle
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Abstract
We expand on existing understandings of health disparities among middle-class African Americans by examining how the postsecondary educational context gives rise to the unequal distribution of health. We used panel data (1994-2009) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to estimate whether the risk of developing metabolic syndrome by midlife significantly differs for African Americans who attended Historically Black College or Universities (HBCUs) versus predominantly White institutions. We found that HBCU enrollment was associated with a 35% reduction in the odds of metabolic syndrome. Furthermore, we demonstrate that HBCU attendees who grew up in more segregated environments experienced the greatest reductions in the likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome. Our results underscore the important role that HBCUs play in the lives of African Americans and suggest their impacts go far beyond traditional benchmarks of socioeconomic achievement to include key health outcomes.
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