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Racism and Health Impacts Across the Body
Health researchers describe sympathetic overactivity and unmitigated social threat from racism. They note rapid heart rate, higher blood pressure, and glucose changes affecting Black Americans, with chronic stress and policing trauma contributing to poorer outcomes and shorter life expectancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins
University of Pennsylvania
Jenkins
U.S
Clyde Yancy
Northwestern University
Fein
Yancy
Patrice Harris
American Medical Association