For example, during pregnancy African Americans are said to have a higher chance of getting preeclampsia or gestational diabetes. Genetically, what’s happening here?
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For Black maternal health specifically, there’s a growing acceptance of a theory called “weathering,” which essentially posits that the stress of living under systemic racism makes Black folks age faster. One bit of evidence supporting this is that among teen mothers there are not wide disparities between Black and white mothers, but there are among older mothers because those Black women have had much more time to be negatively effected by racism.
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