Healio (4/22, Young) reported, “People who experienced lifetime and everyday discrimination had elevated risk for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality compared with those who did not,” investigators concluded in findings published online ahead of print in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. For the study, “researchers followed participants from the MESA cohort aged 45 to 84 years without a history of CVD (1,633 Black, 1,403 Hispanic/Latino and 2,473 white) across five exams from 2002 to 2018.”
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— “Experience with discrimination may increase cardiovascular, all-cause mortality “Kate Young, Healio , April 22, 2023