The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis

RL Simons, MK Lei, E Klopack, SRH Beach… - Social Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
… The present study tests the weathering hypothesis by examining the impact on accelerated
aging of four types of adversity frequently experienced by Black Americans. Further, we …

The weathering hypothesis as an explanation for racial disparities in health: a systematic review

AT Forde, DM Crookes, SF Suglia, RT Demmer - Annals of epidemiology, 2019 - Elsevier
… the weathering hypothesis and assesses the quality of the evidence regarding weathering as
… Having lower income versus higher income resulted in accelerated aging (as measured by …

Reevaluating the “subjective weatheringhypothesis: subjective aging, coping resources, and the stress process

JE Benson - Journal of health and social behavior, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… This study aims to extend the subjective weathering hypothesis by further specifying the
pathways through which early life stressors influence subjective weathering and psychological …

Twelve testable hypotheses on the geobiology of weathering

SL Brantley, JP Megonigal, FN Scatena… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… Here, we advance 12 hypotheses that must be tested to improve our … weathering. (2) Biological
stoichiometry drives changes in mineral stoichiometry and distribution through weathering

The weathering hypothesis and the health of African-American women and infants: evidence and speculations

AT Geronimus - Ethnicity & disease, 1992 - JSTOR
… As an initial approach to gauging the plausibility of the weathering hypothesis, we analyzed
all-cause mortality among young adult women as well as mortality due to causes that are …

An extended evaluation of the weathering hypothesis for birthweight

S Fishman - Demographic Research, 2020 - JSTOR
… are consistent with the weathering hypothesis. Future research may benefit from using
linked family data and sibling modeling approaches to estimate causal models of weathering

Intraindividual variability in late-life functional limitations among White, Black, and Hispanic older adults: Implications for the weathering hypothesis

J Lin, J Kelley-Moore - Research on Aging, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
… to the weathering hypothesis. The same mechanisms of social inequality that generate early
onset of disease and faster health deterioration between groups’ average trajectories also …

The weathering hypothesis and stillbirth: Racial disparities across the life span

AE Brisendine, WS Rice, SS Goldfarb… - Ethnicity & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… the influence of maternal age, in the context of the weathering hypothesis, has a similar … is
to integrate the weathering hypothesis with research on advancing maternal age and race as …

Accelerated health declines among African Americans in the USA

RJ Thorpe, RG Fesahazion, L Parker, T Wilder… - Journal of Urban …, 2016 - Springer
… if age effects represent age effects or cohort effects.2 , 46 The objective of this study was
to test the weathering hypothesis by investigating whether differences exist in patterns of age-…

[HTML][HTML] Birth weight and maternal age among American Indian/Alaska Native mothers: A test of the weathering hypothesis

JA Dennis - SSM-population health, 2019 - Elsevier
… Explanations suggest that exposure to cumulative stress associated with higher rates of
socioeconomic disadvantage over the life course produce an accelerated aging, or weathering, …