Financial strain, inflammatory factors, and haemoglobin A1c levels in African American women

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 662-679

  Cutrona, Carolyn E ^a   Abraham, William T ^a   Russell, Daniel W ^a   Beach, Steven R H ^b   Gibbons, Frederick X ^c   Gerrard, Meg ^c   Monick, Martha ^d   Philibert, Robert ^d  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; financial strain; inflammatory factors; psychosocial stress; type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; IL6R PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 84937949086     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: 20448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjhp.12120     Document Type: Article

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