Associations between historical and contemporary measures of structural racism and leukocyte telomere length: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Elleni M. Hailu, Xing Gao, Belinda L. Needham, Teresa Seeman, Tené T. Lewis and Mahasin S. Mujahid

Social Science & Medicine, 2024, vol. 360, issue C

Abstract: We assessed the link between two manifestations of structural racism—historical redlining and contemporary racial residential segregation—and baseline and 10-year changes in leukocyte telomere length (LTL).

Keywords: Structural racism; Segregation; Redlining; Telomere length; Cellular aging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117229

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