Thread by @NonHumanMedia1

"Black women are especially vulnerable to weathering effects when high rates of male unemployment and incarceration in the community thrust them into a role of supporting multiple generations of dependents but with resources only accessible from low-income jobs" Simons,et al 2018

Weathering starts early in life and continues to have damaging effects on health throughout life (Simons et al., 2018)

The health and life expectancy of Black ppl are negatively affected by the cumulative experiences of racism throughout life (Paradies, 2006;Phelan & Link, 2015)

Black women are four to five times more likely to die during
pregnancy and childbirth than white women, regardless of income, education, or lifestyle
(Bingham et al., 2011; Bond, 2011)

Black newborns are nearly three times more likely to die than were
White newborns, but if the doctor was Black, the mortality rate for Black newborns (as compared with White newborns) was cut in half.
(Berg et al., 2010; Greenwood, et
al., 2020; Picheta, 2020)

"Although health-related behaviors had virtually no impact on biological aging, our analyses indicated that financial pressure had a strong effect on accelerated aging, and it mediated the influence low income had on aging."
(Simons, et al., 2016)

"...changes in income and living arrangements over an 11-year period predict changes in speed of biological aging. These results provide further support for the idea that epigenetic aging is a mechanism whereby social conditions become biologically embedded"
(Simons,et al., 2021)