"Weathering" and age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States.

By A. Geronimus, M. Hicken, Danya E. Keene, J. Bound. American Journal of Public Health, 2006

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Subfields: Genetics, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition. (2010, result): “…of AL across age groups, a finding supporting the ‘‘weathering hypothesis’’, stating that non-Caucasian women’s health deteriorates in early adulthood as the physical consequences of cumulative SES disadvantage contributes to intergenerational reproductive complications (Geronimus et al., 2006).”
Quantification of biological aging in young adults (2015, background): “Replication in other cohorts is needed, in particular in samples including sufficient numbers of ethnic minority individuals to test the “weathering hypothesis” that the stresses of ethnic minority status accelerate aging (40, 41).”
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016 (2019, background): “This might be related to the “weathering” hypothesis, which proposed that black women experience earlier deterioration of health because of the cumulative impact of exposure to psychosocial, economic, and environmental stressors (9).”
How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health. (2010, background): “[In the African American population, the result has been higher age-specific mortality rates across a wide range of disease processes until old age, when healthy survivor effects begin to predominate and black-white mortality differentials disappear (33).”
Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across Life Course (2010, background): “Stress increases allostatic load, and, in turn, the “weathering” of systems diminishes health (Geronimus et al. 2006, McEwen & Stellar 1993).”
Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2015, background): “load and its adverse health consequences persists after controlling for poverty and other forms of disadvantage.(276,278,311)”
Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications (2010, background): “Cumulative advantage/disadvantage studies of health outcomes are quite consistent in their findings (Geronimus et al. 2006; House 2002; House et al. 1994, 2005; Lynch 2003, 2006; McLeod and Shanahan 1996; Miech and Shanahan 2000; Mirowsky and Ross 2003a; Ross and Wu 1996; Walsemann et al. 2008).”
Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: Developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health (2009, background): “…and economics are addressing the evolutionary origins of these developmental responses, their biological bases, and their health and policy implications (e.g. Forrest and Riley, 2004; Geronimus et al., 2006; Graham and Power, 2004; Halfon and Hochstein, 2002; Kuzawa and Pike, 2005; Palloni, 2006).”