Everyday discrimination prospectively predicts inflammation across 7-years in racially diverse midlife women: Study of women's health across the nation

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 298-314

  Beatty Moody, Danielle L ^a   Brown, Charlotte ^b   Matthews, Karen A ^b   Bromberger, Joyce T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUP; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; RACIAL SEGREGATION; WOMENS HEALTH; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 84902118227     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12061     Document Type: Article

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