Association Between Perceived Interpersonal Everyday Discrimination and Waist Circumference Over a 9-Year Period in the Midlife Development in the United States Cohort Study

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dc.contributor.authorHunte, H. E. R.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:03:08Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:03:08Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe relation between perceived interpersonal experiences of discrimination and measures of obesity is of great interest to many. This study examined the relation between changes in waist circumference and changes in perceived interpersonal everyday discrimination using the 1995-2004 Midlife Development in the United States cohort study (N = 1,452). After controlling for potential confounding variables that assessed behavioral and sociodemographic characteristics, sex-stratified ordinary least squares regression analyses suggested that the waist circumference of adult males who reported consistently high levels of interpersonal everyday discrimination increased 2.39 cm more than that of adult males who consistently reported low levels of interpersonal everyday discrimination (P < 0.05). Similarly, the waist circumference of adult females who reported an increase in interpersonal everyday discrimination increased 1.88 cm more than that of adult females who reported consistently low levels of interpersonal everyday discrimination (P < 0.05). These findings suggest that perceived interpersonal everyday discrimination may be associated with an increase in waist circumference over time among adults in the United States.
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwq463
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/xief-gxv2
dc.identifier.citationHunte, H. E. R. (2011) Association Between Perceived Interpersonal Everyday Discrimination and Waist Circumference Over a 9-Year Period in the Midlife Development in the United States Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 173 (11). pp. 1232-1239.
dc.identifier.issn0002-9262
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 2733
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23393
dc.subjectHealth Equity
dc.subjectObesity
dc.subjectStress
dc.subjectstudies
dc.subjectbody weight changes
dc.subjectdiscrimination (psychology)
dc.subjectobesity
dc.subjectstress
dc.subjectpsychological
dc.titleAssociation Between Perceived Interpersonal Everyday Discrimination and Waist Circumference Over a 9-Year Period in the Midlife Development in the United States Cohort Study
dc.typeArticle

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