Journal article
Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination, smoking and alcohol consumption in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Preventive medicine, v 51(3-4), pp 307-312
Sep 2010
PMID: 20609433
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Abstract
To examine the association of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination with smoking and alcohol consumption in adults participating in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
Data on 6680 black, Chinese, Hispanic and white adults aged 45 to 84 years of age recruited from Illinois, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Minnesota and California during 2000 and 2002 were used for this analysis. Logistic regression was used to estimate the association of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination with smoking status and alcohol consumption for each racial/ethnic group separately.
Blacks were more likely to experience racial/ethnic discrimination (43%) than Hispanics (19%), Chinese participants (10%) or whites (4%, P<0.0001). In the fully-adjusted model, blacks reporting racial/ethnic discrimination had 34% and 51% greater odds of reporting smoking and drinking, respectively, than blacks who did not report racial/ethnic discrimination. Hispanics reporting racial/ethnic discrimination had 62% greater odds of heavy drinking. Whites reporting racial/ethnic discrimination had 88% greater odds of reporting being current smokers than whites who did not report racial/ethnic discrimination.
Our findings suggest that the experience of discrimination is associated with greater prevalence of unhealthy behaviors. Specifically, the use of smoking and alcohol may be patterned by experience of discrimination.
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- Title
- Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination, smoking and alcohol consumption in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
- Creators
- Luisa N Borrell (Corresponding Author) - Lehman CollegeAna V Diez Roux - University of MichiganDavid R Jacobs, Jr - University of MinnesotaSteven Shea - Columbia UniversitySharon A Jackson - Jona Place FoundationSandi Shrager - University of WashingtonRoger S Blumenthal - Johns Hopkins University
- Publication Details
- Preventive medicine, v 51(3-4), pp 307-312
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Grant note
- N01HC95159 / NHLBI NIH HHS N01HC95169 / NHLBI NIH HHS N01-HC-95159 / NHLBI NIH HHS P60MD002249 / NIMHD NIH HHS N01-HC-95165 / NHLBI NIH HHS R03 DE017901 / NIDCR NIH HHS R03 DE017901-03 / NIDCR NIH HHS R03DE017901 / NIDCR NIH HHS P60 MD002249 / NIMHD NIH HHS N01-HC-95169 / NHLBI NIH HHS N01HC95165 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000282142500021
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-80155167359
- Other Identifier
- 991020111978104721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health