ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2023
Lethal Police Encounters and Cardiovascular Health among Black Americans.
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- Structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
- A qualitative examination of how direct and indirect police violence shapes perceptions of police, sense of safety, and the mental health of Black adults in Chicago.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Rationale, design, and participant characteristics of the FAITH! Heart Health+ study: An exploration of the influence of the social determinants of health, stress, and structural racism on African American cardiovascular health.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- Bodily Harm: The Health Consequences of Policing in the United States.California law review · 2024Article
- Police Violence Experienced by Black Gay and Bisexual Men: The Effects on HIV Care Engagement and Medication Adherence.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Officer-Involved Killings of Unarmed Black People and Racial Disparities in Sleep Health.JAMA internal medicine · 2024Article
- Understanding the impact of police brutality on Black sexually minoritized men.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Former Incarceration, Time Served, and Perceived Oral Health among African American Women and Men.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study uses insights from social stress theory to examine associations between exposure to police killings of Black Americans and cardiovascular health among Black women and men. Data on lethal police encounters come from the Mapping Police Violence (MPV) database, which allows for examination of total exposures to police killings of Black people and exposures to events when decedents were unarmed. MPV data are merged with the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (n = 26,086) and state-level information from multiple federal databases. Four cardiovascular health outcomes are examined-hypertension, diabetes, heart attack, and stroke. After adjusting for important risk factors, results from gender-stratified multilevel logistic regressions reveal a positive association between exposures to police killings of unarmed Black people and odds of hypertension among Black women and stroke among Black men. Total exposures to police killings of Black people are also associated with greater likelihood of stroke for Black men. Findings from this study demonstrate that stress exposures generated by the quantity and injustice of police killings have important implications for cardiovascular health among Black Americans. Furthermore, adverse cardiovascular health associated with exposure to police violence tends to manifest differently for Black men and women.
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