Perceived racism and incident diabetes in the Black Women’s Health Study

Our aim was to assess the association of perceived racism with type 2 diabetes, and the possible mediating influence of diet and BMI.The Black Women's Health Study, a follow-up of 59,000 African-American women, began in 1995. Over 16 years 5344 incident cases of diabetes occurred during 576,577 person-years. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimated HRs and 95% CIs for categories of 'everyday racism' (interpersonal racism in daily...