Chronic exposure to everyday discrimination and coronary artery calcification in African-American women: The SWAN heart study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 362-368

  Lewis, Tené T ^a   Everson Rose, Susan A ^a   Powell, Lynda H ^a   Matthews, Karen A ^c,d   Brown, Charlotte ^c   Karavolos, Kelly ^a   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^d   Jacobs, Elizabeth ^a,b   Wesley, Deidre ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Atherosclerosis; Chronic stress; Coronary calcium; Discrimination; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DEPRESSION; HOSTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33746051379     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000221360.94700.16     Document Type: Article

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