Yale Medicine School: Black Women Excluded from Critical Studies Due to 'Weathering'
December 02, 2022
December 02, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 2 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news:
Weathered by a lifetime of racial discrimination, Black women age earlier and faster. Researchers theorize this accelerated health deterioration is caused by cumulative exposure to race-based stressors in a race-conscious society.
High levels of stress hormones can be toxic for Black women's bodies, especially if the women are repeatedly pushed into a fight-or-flight state . . .
Weathered by a lifetime of racial discrimination, Black women age earlier and faster. Researchers theorize this accelerated health deterioration is caused by cumulative exposure to race-based stressors in a race-conscious society.
High levels of stress hormones can be toxic for Black women's bodies, especially if the women are repeatedly pushed into a fight-or-flight state . . .