Racial discrimination and leukocyte glucocorticoid sensitivity: Implications for birth timing

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 216, Issue , 2018, Pages 114-123

  Gillespie, Shannon L ^a   Anderson, Cindy M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Cytokines; Discrimination; Disparity; Glucocorticoids; Pregnancy; Psychological; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; HORMONE; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; STEROID;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MATERNAL STRESS; MONOCYTE COUNT; PATHOGENESIS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACISM; SLEEP QUALITY; BIRTH; BLOOD; DEFICIENCY; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LEUKOCYTE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LEUKOCYTES; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RACISM; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85054559833     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.010     Document Type: Article

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