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NEW PAPER ALERT📢
A favorite paper of my career! ➡️ rb.gy/1scuc5 Mothers who participated in a prenatal #mindfulness intervention had babies with healthier #stress responses, suggesting psychosocial #pregnancy #intervention can positively shape infant #health! 🧵 1/
A favorite paper of my career! ➡️ rb.gy/1scuc5 Mothers who participated in a prenatal #mindfulness intervention had babies with healthier #stress responses, suggesting psychosocial #pregnancy #intervention can positively shape infant #health! 🧵 1/
Check out the @UCSF web story on the paper here, written by the wonderful @BertholdJess: 2/ ucsf.edu/news/2022/03/4…
BACKGROUND
This study followed prior work by @Dr_Epel, me & team, which showed the #prenatal #intervention: reduced women’s stress & depression, increased physical activity, lowered diabetes risk. Here, we tested whether these health benefits extended to the developing child. 3/
This study followed prior work by @Dr_Epel, me & team, which showed the #prenatal #intervention: reduced women’s stress & depression, increased physical activity, lowered diabetes risk. Here, we tested whether these health benefits extended to the developing child. 3/
Today, a study conducted by myself, @Fixed_Effects, @aaronsojourner & @LauraHuangLA published in @PNASNews: pnas.org/content/early/… Cc:@KatherineJWu @ByNinaMartin @PublicHealthUMN @UMNews @minnpop @CTurlington @neel_shah @afrakt @UREssien @mg_galvin 1/12
We explore racial concordance in infant mortality. In the US Black infants die at 3 times the rate of white. The reasons are complex and multifactorial as discussed by many scholars like @DrDaraDMendez @maeveellen @mclemoremr @drbdchambers and many many more. 2/12
We know that physician-patient racial concordance confers greater patient satisfaction thanks to seminal work by @LisaCooperMD & others. Also, groundbreaking work by Dr.Alsan tells us that Black men are more likely to access racially concordant care: nber.org/papers/w24787 3/12
