Posted on 11/17/2023 2:18:57 PM PST by devane617
Black women who reported experiencing racism may be at an increased risk of having a stroke, a new study finds.
Participants who said they experienced racism in employment, housing and interactions with police had an estimated 38% higher chance of experiencing all types of strokes compared to Black women who didn’t perceive experiencing racism, the study found.
The study, published under Boston University’s Black Women’s Health Study (BHWS), followed 48,375 Black women from 1997 to 2019 who were free of cardiovascular disease and cancer at the beginning of the study. Over the 22-year period, the study identified 1,664 cases of Black women who had strokes.
Black adults are 50% more likely to have a stroke compared to white adults, and Black women are two times more likely to have a stroke than white women, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
While experts have cited factors like obesity or hypertension as the cause for such high rates, the BWHS aimed to show that potential causes from environmental and social factors that individuals can’t change — like racism — should also be considered, according to Dr. Julie Palmer, director of the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University and a co-author of the study.
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When Lyndon Johnson made Uncle Sam their baby daddy it went downhill from there.
“While experts have cited factors like obesity or hypertension as the cause”
So in otherwords, the same risk factors as every other mammal on planet earth.
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Black women are stroking out because they are angry as hell for any reason at everyone.
80% of black women are obese. That isn’t racism. I have yet to see the clan forcing fried chicken, in large quantities, down their pie holes.
“The study, published under Boston University’s Black Women’s Health Study (BHWS)”, I sure if your looking for $hit, you’ll find it!
oh, boy ……….
The “melting pot” started a fire on the stove which is burning the house down...
Or it could be all the lard, fast food, greasy food, etc. that they eat.
Being a GHETTOPOTUMOUS ISN’T PART OF THE EQUASION??????
That was my take on it as well-diet of fast food, deli and sugar-stuffed bakery goods, sitting around most of the time, etc adds up to around half of these women being morbidly obese, which in turn leads to type II diabetes, etc-if you point out that is an unhealthy way to be, they will play the race card. Interestingly, there are almost no obese women-of any color or ethnic group-in this rural area-but SA, nearly 50 miles away has fat women in the aisles of every store...
Just when we think that all the “absurdity” in the communist manifesto has been attained, this happens...
They mean it wasn’t climate change of some other factor totally unrelated to stroke risk?
Well I can proudly say, racist that I am, that I held open the door for a black lady at Wal-Mart yesterday and probably added a couple years to her life.
Experiencing racism increases the risk by 38%. I guess it means having been racisted against. The problem would be finding a control group that had never experienced racism. The sample would be infinitesimally small.
Check out old films of racial protests in the South\North.
See any obsese women there?
Nope.
Then LBJ launched the Great Society...
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