Preliminary research analyzing responses from more than 48,000 people enrolled in the Black Women’s Health Study found that people who reported experiencing certain types of racial discrimination had higher rates of heart disease over a 22-year period.
. This means that racism can literally age—and fatally injure—a person’s body.
Nearly 2,000 participants developed heart disease over the course of those 22 years, allowing the researchers to see whether they agreed with statements like “People act as if they are afraid of you” or “You receive poorer service than other people at restaurants or stores” more often than those who didn’t.
But looking at the responses of questions meant to measure perceived racism in jobs, housing, and police interactions told a different story. Black women who reported experiencing racism in these aspects of life were 26 percent more likely to develop heart disease than the women who did not report experiencing racism.
There are several factors to keep in mind when interpreting these statistics. For one thing, the women in this study were all compared to one another. There’s no telling whether significant differences might exist in heart disease risk based on experiences of daily interpersonal racism if these participants were compared to white women, for instance.
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