Racial Discrimination and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Dysregulation in Adolescents With Overweight and Obesity: Does Context Matter?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In adolescents at higher risk for chronic disease, the role that context of a discriminatory event may play on cortisol dysregulation is unclear. The purpose of this study was to perform a cross-sectional analysis examining the association between racial discrimination context (peer, educational, institutional, and cumulative) and diurnal cortisol patterning in adolescents with overweight and obesity.

Methods

One hundred adolescents (13-19 years; 49% non-Hispanic Black; 65% female; body mass index percentile = 93.9% [4.14%]) were included in this analysis. Racial discrimination context was measured using the self-reported Adolescent Discrimination Distress Index. Salivary cortisol, collected across 3 days at five time points during the day, was used to calculate Δ

SUBMITTER: Emlaw JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543631 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature