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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Of course it does, the question is how much is it going to cost White people, this time?
No.
“Black women who reported experiencing racism may be at an increased risk of having a stroke, a new study finds.”
The only racism they experience is their hatred of whitey.
I worked as a security guard in Ashley Stewart big black women’s clothing store for a year, no clothes under size 12.
the sales staff all talked bad about skinny ass white bi;;s, and they hated the Asian nail and weave workers.
“Black women who reported experiencing racism may be at an increased risk of having a stroke.”
I always suspected there was a strong correlation between health and reporting racism.
that’s racist
Diet, pot smoking and obesity played no role, right?
Self-selection, in other words. Constant resentment and unhappiness and perpetually trying to achieve victimhood has to be stressful.
Watching their men boinking fat white wimmin is what’s getting to uppity black females.
Absolutely no need for that 'qualifier'.
The rest is the stone cold truth.
The exceptions merely prove the verity of the rule.
Boy in refrigerator eats own foot!
“I guess they need to stop being racists then.”
You win.
Racism is also the root cause of climate change.
Or is it the other way around?
Either way, it’s Trump’s fault!
Massive morbid obesity doesn’t play a role, I’m sure.
Some doctors are quacks.
Left love to create innovative new ways to insert racism in the country that has almost quelled racism completely.
Har, good point!
Obesity and diabetes have nothing to do with it.
Nah.
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