Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging?: A Novel Theory and First Population-Based Test of Black-White Differences in Telomere Length
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We hypothesize that black women experience accelerated biological aging in response to repeated or prolonged adaptation to subjective and objective stressors. Drawing on stress physiology and ethnographic, social science, and public health literature, we lay out the rationale for this hypothesis. We also perform a first population-based test of its plausibility, focusing on telomere length, a biomeasure of aging that may be shortened by stressors. Analyzing data from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), we estimate that at ages 49-55, black women are 7.5 years biologically "older" than white women. Indicators of perceived stress and poverty account for 27% of this difference. Data limitations preclude assessing objective stressors and also result in imprecise estimates, limiting our ability to draw firm inferences. Further investigation of black-white differences in telomere length using large-population-based samples of broad age range and with detailed measures of environmental stressors is merited.
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Some measures of social standing and social deprivation are associated with telomere length.
“some measures of social standing and social deprivation have also been found to be associated with TL (8,9,17,26).”
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Family socioeconomic status is positively associated with telomere length in children.
“Here we were able to replicate the positive association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and TL (8, 9, 17, 26) for a sample of children.”
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- Authors
- Geronimus, A. T., Hicken, M. T., Pearson, J. A., Seashols, S. J., Brown, K. L., & Cruz, T. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Geronimus, Arline T.
- Venue
- Human Nature
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 19-38
- ISSN
- 1045-6767 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-4776
- PMC
- PMC2861506
- OpenAlex
- W2059696574
- Cited by
- 447
- References
- 144
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 60 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 12.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Human Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG032632, P20AG012846, U01AG017719, T32AG000221, P30AG012846)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (U01NR004061)
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041028)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Keywords
- accelerated biological aging, Black women, telomere length, perceived stress, poverty, racial disparities, stress physiology, Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, aging biomarkers
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