Racial Discrimination, Religious Coping, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among African American Women and Men.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This cross-sectional study examined whether religious coping buffered the associations between racial discrimination and several modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors-systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), body mass index (BMI), and cholesterol-in a sample of African American women and men.

Methods

Participant data were taken from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span study (N = 815; 55.2% women; 30-64 years old). Racial discrimination and religious coping were self-reported. CVD risk factors were clinically assessed.

Results

In sex-stratified hierarchical regression analyses adjusted for age, socioeconomic status, and medication use, findings revealed several significant interac

SUBMITTER: Ashe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11954130 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature