Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early vascular ageing (EVA) contributes to elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which disproportionately affects African American women. Incarceration, an event disproportionately impacting African Americans, may be a stressor contributing to EVA in African American women. Further, the subjective perspective, commonly referred to as appraisal, of incarceration may also be important for health. We hypothesised that having family and/or friends incarcerated and appraising the incarceration as upsetting would be associated with indices of EVA.

Methods

In a community-based cohort of African American women aged 30-46 living in Atlanta, Georgia (n=391), participants were asked, at baseline, about family and/or friend incarceration and to appraise how upsetting

SUBMITTER: Fields ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11560605 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature