Associations of abdominal fat with perceived racism and passive emotional responses to racism in African American women

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 526-530

  Vines, Anissa I ^a   Baird, Donna Day ^b   Stevens, June ^a   Hertz Picciotto, Irva ^a   Light, Kathleen C ^c   McNeilly, Maya ^d  

^a IL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; RACISM; STRESS; TELEPHONE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ETHNOLOGY; FRUSTRATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; WAIST-HIP RATIO; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33847750292     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.080663     Document Type: Article

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