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June 2006, Vol 96, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 955
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.085514

LETTER

WHAT’S MISSING FROM THE WEATHERING HYPOTHESIS?

Nigel Mark Thomas, MPH

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Nigel Mark Thomas, MPH, 300 W 145th St, 2J, New York, NY 10039 (e-mail: nt170@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Geronimus and colleagues’ finding1 is a curious one. The authors considered "whether US Blacks experience early health deterioration, as measured across biological indicators of repeated exposure and adaptation to stressors"1(p826) and found evidence of the "weathering hypothesis" among Blacks. Blacks had higher cumulative risk measurements than did Whites. These racial differences were not explained by poverty. Poor Black women had the highest allostatic load scores, followed by Black women who were not poor. This finding suggests that within the racial and gender stratification of the United States, Black women are more likely than other groups to engage in "John Henryism"—persistent . . . [Full Text]






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