Chronic stress can change your brain. Experiencing racism could make it worse.
Racial discrimination may increase stress, lead to health problems and hamper cognitive function for Black women, a new study finds.Black women who frequently experienced daily racism — including racial slurs, poor store service or forms of stereotyping — had 2.75 times the risk of poor subjective cognitive functioning than women who experienced lower levels of daily racism.
"People are much more willing having seen the evidence of all the things that are going on and learning what experiences of racism do to people's lives in terms of housing, education, job opportunity and interactions with police," Rosenberg said."What our studies show we have looked at racism in relation to other conditions and there is no doubt in my mind that racism has an adverse effect on people's health.
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