Investigating Racial Differences in Allostatic Load by Educational Attainment among Non‐Hispanic Black and White Men

Danielle R. Gilmore; Tzitzi Morán Carreño; Hossein Zare; Justin X. Moore; Charles R. Rogers; Ellen Brooks; Ethan Petersen; Carson Kennedy; Roland J. Thorpe

doi:10.3390/ijerph19095486

Investigating Racial Differences in Allostatic Load by Educational Attainment among Non‐Hispanic Black and White Men

Danielle R. Gilmore, Tzitzi Morán Carreño, Hossein Zare, Justin X. Moore, Charles R. Rogers, Ellen Brooks, Ethan Petersen, Carson Kennedy, Roland J. Thorpe

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Abstract

Education continues to be a key factor contributing to increased access to critical life‐im-proving opportunities and has been found to be protective against Allostatic Load (AL). The purpose of this study was to assess AL among Non‐Hispanic (NH) White and NH Black men with the same level of education. We used 1999–2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) data with an analytical sample of 6472 men (1842 NH Black and 4630 NH White), and nine biomarkers to measure AL, controlling for various demographic and health‐related factors. NH Black men had a higher AL score than NH White men (39.1%, 842 vs. 37.7%, 1,975). Racial disparities in AL between NH Black and NH White men who have a college degree or above (PR: 1.49, CI: [1.24–1.80]) were observed. Models posited similar AL differences at every other level of education, although these were not statistically significant. The findings reveal that socioeconomic returns to education and the societal protective mechanisms associated with education vary greatly between White and Black men.

Original language	English
Article number	5486
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	19
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095486
State	Published - May 1 2022

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Funding: R.J.T. was funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities U54MD000214 and National Institute on Aging K02AG059140.

Funders	Funder number
National Institute on Aging	K02AG059140
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)	U54MD000214

Keywords

Allostatic Load
educational status
epidemiologic methods
health disparities
menʹs health

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Pollution
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Gilmore, D. R., Carreño, T. M., Zare, H., Moore, J. X., Rogers, C. R., Brooks, E., Petersen, E., Kennedy, C., & Thorpe, R. J. (2022). Investigating Racial Differences in Allostatic Load by Educational Attainment among Non‐Hispanic Black and White Men. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), Article 5486. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095486

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