How racism skewed estimates of heart disease in women

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“Weathering” due to racist experiences can lead women of color to experience some medical conditions earlier than their white counterparts, often leading to these vulnerable women being left out of crucial studies.

Growing up as a multiracial person in the United States, Alexis Reeves was no stranger to the impact of racial discrimination. She spent summer vacations with her father’s family in Pennsylvania, where her Black grandfather had worked as a sharecropper. Nearly everyone on that side of her family had high blood pressure, took cholesterol medication, or had experienced some form of heart disease.

So in a new study, Reeves decided to rejigger data from a long-running analysis of women’s health: the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation . Since 1994, the U.S.based project has been tracking the health middle-age and older women as they get older. But it had been leaving people out. For the new analysis, Reeves and her colleagues examined the roughly 9000 women who had been excluded in the previous iteration of the study because these restrictions didn’t account for weathering. Then the researchers effectively “enrolled” these women in SWAN, matching up their data with similar participants who were included in the study in order to see how their health trajectories compared with those of the previous cohort.

 

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Perception of incidents is probably more important. If you presume something is racial, and you get angry about racism, you're gonna get more effected by that affect.

Scientific Hogwash, there are more women of Color in this World.

It is the case that white people are always accused about all that is negative, and they get a condition known as............. Fill the spaces with your favourite word.

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