Evidence of accelerated aging among African Americans and its implications for mortality

ME Levine, EM Crimmins - Social Science & Medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
accelerated aging compared to whites. However, these differences should decrease with
age … Finally, we hypothesize that racial differences in pace of aging will account for the higher …

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
… greater accelerated aging than females, but there was no evidence that gender conditioned
the effect of adversity. The health risk behaviors were unrelated to accelerated aging and did …

The effect of early discrimination on accelerated aging among African Americans.

SE Carter, ML Ong, RL Simons, FX Gibbons… - Health …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
… of racial discrimination and accelerated aging in adulthood for African Americans (ie, …
368 African Americans with usable gene expression data to compute accelerated aging, as …

Accelerated health declines among African Americans in the USA

RJ Thorpe, RG Fesahazion, L Parker, T Wilder… - Journal of Urban …, 2016 - Springer
… and mortality among African Americans and other ethnic … African Americans tend to develop
age-related diseases in … this is the substantial evidence that African Americans experience …

The accelerated aging phenotype: the role of race and social determinants of health on aging

NN Hooten, NL Pacheco, JT Smith, MK Evans - Ageing Research Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
… of age-associated disease among African American … ‘premature aging’ or ‘accelerated aging
or ‘weathering’. In marginalized and low SES populations with high rates of early onset age-…

Novel age-associated DNA methylation changes and epigenetic age acceleration in middle-aged African Americans and whites

SM Tajuddin, DG Hernandez, BH Chen… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
African Americans (AAs) experience premature chronic health outcomes and longevity
disparities consistent with an accelerated aging … There is ample evidence in the literature that …

Unstable childhood, adult adversity, and smoking accelerate biological aging among middle-age African Americans: Similar findings for GrimAge and PoAm

RL Simons, ML Ong, MK Lei… - Journal of aging …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
… Thus, we found no evidence that the impact of either the … accelerates aging and hence
policies and programs to reduce smoking would enhance the health of the African American

When anger remains unspoken: anger and accelerated epigenetic aging among stress-exposed black Americans

BG McKenna, Y Mekawi, S Katrinli, S Carter… - Psychosomatic …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
… stressors may be associated with accelerated aging. Early evidence suggests psychological
processes such as … We hypothesized that, within a sample of Black American individuals, …

Epigenetic age acceleration and cognitive function in African American adults in midlife: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study

J Bressler, RE Marioni, RM Walker, R Xia… - The Journals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… These findings provide evidence that age acceleration is a … of age acceleration and
methylation age with scores on three tests of cognitive function in middle-aged African American

Losing years doing time: Incarceration exposure and accelerated biological aging among African American adults

MT Berg, EM Rogers, MK Lei… - Journal of Health and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
… chronological age to create a speed of aging score or “accelerated aging.” The resulting
speed of Grim aging … That we uncovered evidence of accelerated aging in a sample of African