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Obesity is more common in black women than in white women. Racial discrimination is a form of chronic stress that may influence weight.We assessed the association of perceived racism with weight change between 1997 and 2005 in 43,103 women from the Black Women's Health Study, a prospective follow-up of U.S. black women aged 21–69 years at entry in 1995. Eight questions about perceptions and experiences...
Unique experiences associated with “race,” such as racism, may adversely affect health. Our goal is to assess whether racism is associated with the occurrence of hypertension in African-American women.In the first prospective examination of perceived experiences of racism in relation to the incidence of hypertension, we used data from the Black Women's Health Study, a follow-up study of US black women...
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