Why the study?
Is perceived discrimination associated with reduced heart rate variability in African Americans?
Is perceived discrimination associated with reduced heart rate variability in African Americans?
A greater lifetime burden of discrimination is associated with lower resting heart rate variability in African Americans, highlighting a potential autonomic pathway linking discrimination to cardiovascular risk.
May support vagal assessment in disparity studies; leaves open causal links to hypertension, needing longitudinal data.
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Hill et al. (2017) studied this question.
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