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Study: Racism shortens lives and hurts health of blacks by promoting genes that lead to inflammation and illness

  • Written by April Thames, Associate Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Study: Racism shortens lives and hurts health of blacks by promoting genes that lead to inflammation and illnessAfrican Americans have worse health outcomes and die earlier than whites. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

Negative social attitudes, such as racism and discrimination, damage the health of those who are targeted by triggering a cascade of aberrant biological responses, including abnormal gene activity. It is not surprising that reports...

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