Journal article
Police-related Stress and Carotid Intima Media Thickness Among African American Women
Biopsychosocial science and medicine, v 88(1), pp 113-123
Jan 2026
PMID: 40891723
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Abstract
Objective:Anti-black police violence and harassment have been identified as public health issues. However, studies have primarily focused on direct and/or vicarious police encounters. A dearth of studies has also examined vigilance related to future police encounters, and to our knowledge, no studies have examined all 3 kinds of police-related stress among African American women.Methods:We employed a latent class analysis (LCA) approach to identify classes of African American women (N = 422), aged 30 to 46, based on the patterning of various forms of self-reported police-related stress: direct, vicarious, police-related vigilance for self, and police-related vigilance for children. We then examined associations between latent class membership and carotid intima media thickness (IMT), a marker of cardiovascular risk.Results:We identified 3 latent classes of police-related stress: (1) high child vigilance-high personal exposure, (2) no child vigilance-high personal exposure, and (3) moderate child vigilance-low self vigilance-low personal exposure class. Findings from the fully adjusted model reveal that the no child vigilance-high personal exposure class had lower common carotid artery (CCA) IMT than the high child vigilance-high personal exposure and moderate child vigilance-low self vigilance-low personal exposure classes.Conclusions:Vigilance for children's future police encounters may be associated with increased cardiovascular risk in African American women. Agency, system, and policy-level solutions may be needed to reduce anti-black police violence and improve the cardiovascular health of this high-risk population.
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- Title
- Police-related Stress and Carotid Intima Media Thickness Among African American Women
- Creators
- Lori S. Hoggard - North Carolina State UniversityRaphiel J. Murden - Emory UniversityNicole D. Fields - Emory UniversityChristy L. Erving - The University of Texas at AustinShivika Udaipuria - Emory UniversityRenee H. Moore - Drexel University, Epidemiology and BiostatisticsViola Vaccarino - Emory UniversityArshed A. Quyyumi - Emory UniversityEmma Barinas-Mitchell - University of PittsburghTene T. Lewis - Emory University
- Publication Details
- Biopsychosocial science and medicine, v 88(1), pp 113-123
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- R01 HL130471; R01HL158141; K24HL163696; T32 HL130025; P2CHD042849 / Population Research Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001654462000007
- Other Identifier
- 991022086607804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary