For African-American Women, Stress Can Be Compounded By Their Coping Strategies

Using incense or lighting a candle may seem like good ways to let go of racial stress, but a recent study found that might not be the case in terms of racial tension among women…

Study Of African-American Women Reveals New Genetic Risk Factors Of Lupus

Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found four new genetic variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that confer a higher risk of systemic lupus erythemathosus (”lupus”) in African American women…

Hair Styles May Contribute To Scarring Hair Loss In African American Women

Hair grooming practices, such as braids and weaves, as well as inflammation in the form of bacterial infection, may be contributing to the development of scarring hair loss in African American women, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals…

Aetna And The Aetna Foundation To Fund $730,000 In Research To Help African-American Women Have Healthier Pregnancies And Healthier Babies

Aetna and the Aetna Foundation today announced funding in support of three research projects aimed at driving down rates of infant mortality among African-American newborns, who are more than twice as likely to die in their first year as white infants, and improving health equity for their mothers…

In More Dense And Urban Residential Developments African-American Women Gain Less Weight

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Slone Epidemiology Center have found that African-American women who live in more densely populated urban areas gain less weight than those in more sprawling auto-oriented areas…

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