Discrimination, Sleep, and Stress Reactivity: Pathways to African American-White Cardiometabolic Risk Inequities

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 699-716

  Goosby, Bridget J ^a   Straley, Elizabeth ^a   Cheadle, Jacob E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiometabolic; Discrimination; Racial inequities; Sleep; Stress

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNICITY; HEALTH RISK; PHYSIOLOGY; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85019567558     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-017-9439-z     Document Type: Article

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