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Perceived Stress, Blood Biomarkers, and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults. 老年人的感知压力、血液生物标志物和认知功能。
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001317
Pankaja Desai, Ted K S Ng, Kristin R Krueger, Robert S Wilson, Denis A Evans, Kumar B Rajan
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Hemodynamic Reactivity to Mental Stress and Cognitive Function in Coronary Artery Disease. 冠状动脉疾病患者对精神压力和认知功能的血流动力学反应。
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001314
Kasra Moazzami, Ambar Kulshreshtha, Matthew Gold, Alireza Rahbar, Felicia Goldstein, Amit J Shah, J Douglas Bremner, Viola Vaccarino, Arshed A Quyyumi
{"title":"Hemodynamic Reactivity to Mental Stress and Cognitive Function in Coronary Artery Disease.","authors":"Kasra Moazzami, Ambar Kulshreshtha, Matthew Gold, Alireza Rahbar, Felicia Goldstein, Amit J Shah, J Douglas Bremner, Viola Vaccarino, Arshed A Quyyumi","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001314","url":null,"abstract":"People with coronary artery disease (CAD) are at higher risk of cognitive impairment than those without CAD. Psychological stress is a risk factor for both conditions and assessing the hemodynamic reactivity to mental stress could explain the link between stress and cognitive function.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140635273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Association of Emotion Regulation and Somatic Symptoms. 情绪调节与躯体症状的关联。
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001310
Tara M Petzke, Michael Witthöft
{"title":"The Association of Emotion Regulation and Somatic Symptoms.","authors":"Tara M Petzke, Michael Witthöft","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001310","url":null,"abstract":"People with functional somatic symptoms have difficulties in various stages of the emotion regulation (ER) process (1). As an adaptive and flexible use of ER strategies is a core tenet of emotional health, having difficulties in this area is often assumed to be the key mechanism behind functional somatic symptoms. Following a dimensional population-based sampling approach, we investigated emotion regulation abilities across a broad range of people and tested possible associations with somatic symptom reporting, habitual ER use as well as various subclinical constructs (such as alexithymia and anxiety).","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Associations Between Early-Life Adversity, Ambient Air Pollution, and Telomere Length in Children. 儿童早期生活逆境、环境空气污染与端粒长度之间的关系
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001276
Rosemarie de la Rosa, Austin Le, Stephanie Holm, Morgan Ye, Nicole R Bush, Danielle Hessler, Kadiatou Koita, Monica Bucci, Dayna Long, Neeta Thakur
{"title":"Associations Between Early-Life Adversity, Ambient Air Pollution, and Telomere Length in Children.","authors":"Rosemarie de la Rosa, Austin Le, Stephanie Holm, Morgan Ye, Nicole R Bush, Danielle Hessler, Kadiatou Koita, Monica Bucci, Dayna Long, Neeta Thakur","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001276","url":null,"abstract":"Examine the independent associations and interaction between early-life adversity and residential ambient air pollution exposure on relative buccal telomere length (rBTL).","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Childhood Maltreatment and Leukocyte Telomere Length: Cardiac Vagal Activity Influences the Relation in Older Adults. 童年虐待与白细胞端粒长度:心迷走神经活动影响老年人的关系
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001290
Alexandra Connor, Alain Deschamps, Lambert Busque, Jean-Claude Tardif, Vincent Bourgoin, Marie-Pierre Dubé, David Busseuil, Bianca D'Antono
{"title":"Childhood Maltreatment and Leukocyte Telomere Length: Cardiac Vagal Activity Influences the Relation in Older Adults.","authors":"Alexandra Connor, Alain Deschamps, Lambert Busque, Jean-Claude Tardif, Vincent Bourgoin, Marie-Pierre Dubé, David Busseuil, Bianca D'Antono","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001290","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001290","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Childhood maltreatment is associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length (LTL). However, the influence of cardiac vagal control on this relation is unknown. We examined whether cardiac vagal control at rest and in response to stress moderates or cross-sectionally mediates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and LTL.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 1179 men and women (aged 65 [7.2] years) suffering from coronary artery disease or non-cardiovascular chronic disease. They completed a childhood maltreatment questionnaire and underwent a stress protocol while electrocardiogram was monitored. High-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) measures were obtained at rest, during stress, and after stress in absolute and normalized units (nu). LTL was measured using quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Mediation and moderation analyses were performed.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>HF-HRV and HF-HRV in normalized units (HFnu) measures did not mediate the childhood maltreatment-LTL relation. However, baseline HFnu ( p = .027) and HFnu reactivity ( p = .051) moderated the relation. Specifically, maltreatment was associated with significantly lower LTL among those with baseline HFnu at ( b = -0.059, p = .003) or below the mean ( b = -0.103, p < .001), but not among those with higher baseline HFnu. It was also associated with significantly lower LTL among participants who showed either blunted ( b = -0.058, p = .004) or increased HFnu ( b = -0.099, p = .001) responses to stress but not in those with large decreases in HFnu.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Childhood maltreatment was associated with lower LTL in those who showed a distinct cardiac vagal profile at baseline and in response to stress. The mechanisms and implications remain to be determined.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"146-156"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139723862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Preexisting Psychiatric Conditions as Risk Factors for Diagnosed Long COVID-19 Syndrome Within Aggregated Electronic Health Record Data. 综合电子健康记录数据中作为确诊长 COVID-19 综合征风险因素的既存精神疾病。
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001280
Lukas Bobak, Ian Dorney, Alexsandra Kovacevich, Brian Barnett, David C Kaelber
{"title":"Preexisting Psychiatric Conditions as Risk Factors for Diagnosed Long COVID-19 Syndrome Within Aggregated Electronic Health Record Data.","authors":"Lukas Bobak, Ian Dorney, Alexsandra Kovacevich, Brian Barnett, David C Kaelber","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001280","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the frequency of long COVID diagnosis among patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 with preexisting psychiatric conditions versus those without preexisting psychiatric conditions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The TriNetX Analytics platform, an aggregated electronic health record research network containing the deidentified electronic health record data of more than 90 million patients, was queried for patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 infection based on International Classifications of Disease, Tenth Revision codes. Patients were stratified based on their preexisting psychiatric conditions, and new diagnoses of long COVID were recorded and reported as the primary outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 1,180,948 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19, 17,990 patients (1.52%) were diagnosed with long COVID based on the newly implemented International Classifications of Disease, Tenth Revision code \"U09: post-COVID-19 condition.\" After propensity score matching, patients with any preexisting psychiatric diagnosis had a 1.52 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.47-1.58) times greater prevalence of diagnosed long COVID within 180 days of infection than patients without preexisting psychiatric diagnoses. Patients with diagnosed anxiety disorders (relative risk [RR] = 1.64; 95% CI = 1.57-1.71), mood disorders (RR = 1.65; 95% CI = 1.57-1.72), bipolar disorder (RR = 1.37; 95% CI = 1.21-1.54), major depressive disorder (RR = 1.69; 95% CI = 1.56-1.83), psychotic disorders (RR = 1.23; 95% CI = 1.06-1.44), and substance use disorders (RR = 1.28; 95% CI = 1.22-1.36) had higher risks for long COVID diagnoses when compared with patients without preexisting psychiatric illness at the time of diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Multiple preexisting psychiatric diagnoses are associated with an increased risk of being diagnosed with long COVID after COVID-19 infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"132-136"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11001529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139404217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cumulative Stress Across the Life Course and Biological Aging in Adulthood. 整个生命过程中的累积压力与成年后的生物衰老。
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001284
Shakira F Suglia, Elizabeth S Clausing, Rachel C Shelton, Karen Conneely, Diddier Prada-Ortega, Immaculata DeVivo, Pam Factor-Litvak, Piera Cirillo, Andrea A Baccarelli, Barbara Cohn, Bruce G Link
{"title":"Cumulative Stress Across the Life Course and Biological Aging in Adulthood.","authors":"Shakira F Suglia, Elizabeth S Clausing, Rachel C Shelton, Karen Conneely, Diddier Prada-Ortega, Immaculata DeVivo, Pam Factor-Litvak, Piera Cirillo, Andrea A Baccarelli, Barbara Cohn, Bruce G Link","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001284","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001284","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Psychosocial stressors have been linked with accelerated biological aging in adults; however, few studies have examined stressors across the life course in relation to biological aging.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In 359 individuals (57% White, 34% Black) from the Child Health and Development Studies Disparities study, economic (income, education, financial strain), social (parent-child relations, caretaker responsibilities) and traumatic (death of a sibling or child, violence exposure) stressors were assessed at multiple time points (birth and ages 9, 15, and 50 years). Experiences of major discrimination were assessed at age 50. Life period stress scores were then assessed as childhood (birth-age 15 years) and adulthood (age 50 years). At age 50 years, participants provided blood samples, and DNA methylation was assessed with the EPIC BeadChip. Epigenetic age was estimated using six epigenetic clocks (Horvath, Hannum, Skin and Blood age, PhenoAge, GrimAge, Dunedin Pace of Aging). Age acceleration was determined using residuals from regressing chronologic age on each of the epigenetic age metrics. Telomere length was assessed using the quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based methods.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In linear regression models adjusted for race and gender, total life stress, and childhood and adult stress independently predicted accelerated aging based on GrimAge and faster pace of aging based on the DunedinPace. Associations were attenuated after adjusting for smoking status. In sex-stratified analyses, greater childhood stress was associated with accelerated epigenetic aging among women but not men. No associations were noted with telomere length.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We found that cumulative stressors across the life course were associated with accelerated epigenetic age, with differences by sex (e.g., accelerated among women). Further research of this association in large and diverse samples is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"137-145"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11001534/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139723863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Associations Between Structural Stigma and Allostatic Load Among Sexual Minorities: Results From a Population-Based Study. 性少数群体中结构性污名与代谢负荷之间的关系:基于人口的研究结果。
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001289
Robert-Paul Juster, Caroline Rutherford, Katherine Keyes, Mark L Hatzenbuehler
{"title":"Associations Between Structural Stigma and Allostatic Load Among Sexual Minorities: Results From a Population-Based Study.","authors":"Robert-Paul Juster, Caroline Rutherford, Katherine Keyes, Mark L Hatzenbuehler","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001289","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001289","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Structural forms of stigma and discrimination are associated with adverse health outcomes across numerous stigmatized groups, including lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. However, the biological consequences of structural stigma among LGB populations are understudied. To begin to address this gap, we assessed associations between indicators of structural stigma (i.e., state-level policies) targeting LGB individuals and allostatic load (AL) indices representing physiological dysregulations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Pooled data from the continuous 2001-2014 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey were analyzed (LGB: n = 864; heterosexual: n = 20,310). Ten state-level LGB-related policies (e.g., employment nondiscrimination protections, same-sex marriage) were used to operationalize structural stigma. A sex-specific AL index representing 11 immune, metabolic, and cardiovascular biomarkers was estimated. Multilevel models were used to examine associations between structural stigma and AL, net of nine individual-level characteristics (e.g., education, race/ethnicity, age, and health behaviors).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Sexual minority men living in states with low levels of structural stigma experienced significantly lower AL ( β = -0.45, p = .02) compared with sexual minority men living in states with high structural stigma (i.e., fewer protective policies). There was no significant association between structural stigma and AL among sexual minority women.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>By demonstrating direct associations between structural stigma and indices of physiological dysregulation, our findings provide a mechanistic understanding of how the social environment can \"get under the skin and skull\" for sexual minority men in the United States. Future research should explore whether these mechanisms generalize to other marginalized groups exposed to structural stigma.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"157-168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139723861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Perceived Control and Inflammation: Mediating and Moderating Effects in the Relationship Between Cumulative Trauma and Depression. 感知控制与炎症:累积性创伤与抑郁之间关系的中介和调节作用》(Perceived Control and Inflamm: Mediating and Moderating Effects in the Relationship between Cumulative Trauma and Depression.
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001282
Zachary E Magin, Crystal L Park, Jeffrey D Burke, Frank J Infurna
{"title":"Perceived Control and Inflammation: Mediating and Moderating Effects in the Relationship Between Cumulative Trauma and Depression.","authors":"Zachary E Magin, Crystal L Park, Jeffrey D Burke, Frank J Infurna","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001282","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001282","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The effects of trauma exposure on depression risk and severity are well established, but psychosocial and biological factors that impact or explain those relationships remain poorly understood. This study examined the moderating and mediating effects of perceived control and inflammation in the relationship between trauma and depression.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Moderation analyses and longitudinal mediation analyses were conducted on data from 945 adults who completed all three waves (spanning around 19 years) of the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) study and the MIDUS Biomarker Study. Data were collected during a phone interview, self-report surveys distributed in the mail, and an in-person blood draw. Two dimensions of perceived control-mastery and constraints-were examined separately in all analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Perceived control did not significantly moderate the relationship between trauma and depression severity at MIDUS 2 ( b = 0.03, SE = .02, p = .091). Constraints significantly mediated the relationship between trauma and MIDUS 3 depression (indirect effect = 0.03, SE = 0.01, p = .016) but not after accounting for MIDUS 2 depression. Perceived control did not have a significant moderating effect in the relationships between trauma and inflammation or inflammation and depression.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings from this study revealed that perceived control may be better characterized as an explanatory factor rather than a buffer in trauma-associated depression. Perceived constraints in particular may be a useful treatment target for trauma-associated depression. Further research is needed to examine whether these results generalize to populations other than among mostly non-Hispanic White adults in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"192-201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139404216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health in Black Americans: Exploring Inflammation as a Mechanism and Perceived Control as a Protective Factor. 美国黑人的歧视与心血管健康:探索作为机制的炎症和作为保护因素的感知控制。
IF 3.3 3区 医学
Psychosomatic Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001300
Carrington C Merritt, Keely A Muscatell
{"title":"Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health in Black Americans: Exploring Inflammation as a Mechanism and Perceived Control as a Protective Factor.","authors":"Carrington C Merritt, Keely A Muscatell","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001300","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001300","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Inflammation may be an integral physiological mechanism through which discrimination impacts cardiovascular health and contributes to racial health disparities. Limited research has examined psychosocial factors that protect against the negative effects of discrimination on inflammation. Perceived control is a promising possible protective factor, given that it has been shown to moderate the relationship between other psychosocial stressors and physiological outcomes. This study thus tested whether systemic inflammation mediated the link between discrimination and cardiovascular health and whether perceived control moderated this relationship.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data for this project included 347 non-Hispanic/Latinx Black adults (mean [standard deviation] age = 51.64 [11.24] years; 33% female) taken from the Midlife in the United States study. Perceived control and daily discrimination were assessed via self-report, and inflammation was measured via circulating levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), fibrinogen, and tumor necrosis factor α. Cardiovascular health was measured by morbidity of cardiovascular conditions: heart disease, hypertension, and/or stroke.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CRP (indirect effect: b = 0.004, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.001-0.007) and fibrinogen (indirect effect: b = 0.002, 95% CI = 0.0003-0.005) mediated the link between discrimination and cardiovascular conditions. Perceived control moderated the relationship between discrimination and CRP ( F (1, 293) = 4.58, Δ R2 = 0.013, b = -0.02, SE = 0.01, p = .033). CRP mediated the link between discrimination and cardiovascular conditions only for those who reported low levels of perceived control (Index = -0.003, 95% CI = -0.007 to -0.0001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings provide empirical evidence of inflammation as a mechanism linking discrimination to cardiovascular conditions among Black Americans. Additionally, perceived control may be protective. Findings could suggest beliefs about control as a potential intervention target to help reduce the negative effects of discrimination on cardiovascular health among Black Americans.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"181-191"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11001516/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140022489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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