Assessing the role of socioeconomic status and discrimination exposure for racial disparities in inflammation.

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic status (SES) and discrimination have been implicated as social determinants of health and health disparities. Yet, very little research has been done to assess their contributing role in Black-White disparities in inflammation. Using data from the Midlife in the United States (2004-2006), we conducted Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis to quantify the extent to which three indicators of SES (i.e., education, household income, and employment status) and three forms of discrimination exposures (i.e., everyday, lifetime, and workplace discrimination) explained Black-White differences in inflammation. Education, particularly having a college degree or more, explained 16.88% of the differences between Blacks and Whites. There was no evidence that household income and employment

SUBMITTER: Cuevas AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9073909 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature