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Below is a list of our published works:
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Interactive Effects of Chronic Health Conditions and Financial Hardship on
Episodic Memory among Old This study examined whether financial hardship modifies the impact of self-reported chronic health conditions on episodic memory. Byrd, D. A. R., Gonzales, E., Beatty Moody, D. L., Marshall, G. L., Zahodne, L. B., Thorpe, R. J., & Whitfield, K. E. (2020). Interactive Effects of Chronic Health Conditions And Financial Hardship On Episodic Memory Among Older Blacks: Findings From The Health And Retirement Study. Research in Human Development, 17(1), 41–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2020.1746159 |
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Interactive Relations Across Dimensions of Interpersonal-level Discrimination
and Depressive Symptoms to Carotid Intimal-medial Thickening in African Americans This study examined within-race interactions of multiple dimensions of self-reported discrimination with depressive symptoms in linkage with carotid intimal-medial thickening in middle-age to older African Americans and White adults. Beatty Moody, D. L., Leibel, D. K., Pantesco, E. J., Wendell, C. R., Waldstein, S. R., Evans, M. K., & Zonderman, A. B. (2020). Interactive Relations Across Dimensions of Interpersonal-Level Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms to Carotid Intimal-Medial Thickening in African Americans. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(2), 234–246. https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000000765 |
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Telomere Length and Cognitive Function: Differential Patterns Across Sociodemographic Groups
This study investigates whether associations between telomere length (TL) and cognitive performance are moderated by race and poverty status. Leibel, D. K., Shaked, D., Beatty Moody, D. L., Liu, H. B., Weng, N.-, Evans, M. K., Zonderman, A. B., & Waldstein, S. R. (2020). Telomere length and cognitive function: Differential patterns across sociodemographic groups. Neuropsychology, 34(2), 186–198. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000601 |
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Multiple Influences on Cognitive Function Among Urban-Dwelling African Americans
This study examined multiple influences on cognitive function among African Americans, including education, literacy, poverty status, substance use, depressive symptoms, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Wright, R. S., Waldstein, S. R., Gerassimakis, C. S., Sprung, M. R., Moody, D. L. B., Taylor, A. D., Al’Najjar, E., McNeely, J. M., Zhang, Z., Evans, M. K., & Zonderman, A. B. (2019). Multiple Influences on Cognitive Function Among Urban-Dwelling African Americans. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 6(4), 851–860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-019-00584-x |
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Sociodemographic Disparities in Corticolimbic Structures
This study sought to examine the interactive relations of socioeconomic status and race to corticolimbic regions that may play a key role in translating stress to the poor health outcomes overrepresented among those of lower socioeconomic status and African American race. Shaked, D., Millman, Z. B., Moody, D. L. B., Rosenberger, W. F., Shao, H., Katzel, L. I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R. P., Seliger, S. L., Erus, G., Evans, M. K., Zonderman, A. B., & Waldstein, S. R. (2019). Sociodemographic Disparities in Corticolimbic Structures. PLOS ONE, 14(5), e0216338. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216338 |
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Interpersonal-Level Discrimination Indices, Sociodemographic Factors, and
Telomere Length in African-Americans and Whites This study examines whether intersections between social categories race, socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and age influence the association of varying forms of discrimination with telomere length in a socioeconomically and racially/ethnically diverse urban sample. Beatty Moody, D. L., Leibel, D. K., Darden, T. M., Ashe, J. J., Waldstein, S. R., Katzel, L. I., Liu, H. B., Weng, N.-P., Evans, M. K., & Zonderman, A. B. (2019). Interpersonal-level discrimination indices, sociodemographic factors, and telomere length in African-Americans and Whites. Biological Psychology, 141, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.12.004 |
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Multiple Forms of Discrimination, Social Status, and Telomere Length: Interactions within Race
This study investigates within-race interactions between multiple indices of interpersonal discrimination and sociodemographic characteristics in relation to telomere length in African American and White adults. Pantesco, E. J., Leibel, D. K., Ashe, J. J., Waldstein, S. R., Katzel, L. I., Liu, H. B., Weng, N.-, Evans, M. K., Zonderman, A. B., & Beatty Moody, D. L. (2018). Multiple Forms of Discrimination, Social Status, and Telomere Length: Interactions within Race. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98, 119–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.08.012 |
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Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Blood Pressure Across 10 Years in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation
This study examined whether exposure to everyday discrimination prospectively predicts elevated blood pressure (BP), whether this association differs by race/ ethnicity, and is mediated by adiposity indices Moody, D. L. B., Chang, Y.-F., Pantesco, E. J., Darden, T. M., Lewis, T. T., Brown, C., Bromberger, J. T., & Matthews, K. A. (2018). Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Blood Pressure Across 10 Years in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53(7), 608–620. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kay069 |
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Lifetime Discrimination Burden, Racial Discrimination, and Subclinical Cerebrovascular Disease Among African Americans
This study explored interactive relations of lifetime discrimination burden and racial discrimination-chronic stressors among African Americans (AAs)-and age with MRI-assessed white matter lesion volume (WMLV), a prognostic indicator of poor clinical brain health outcomes.. Beatty Moody, D. L., Taylor, A. D., Leibel, D. K., Al-Najjar, E., Katzel, L. I., Davatzikos, C., Gullapalli, R. P., Seliger, S. L., Kouo, T., Erus, G., Rosenberger, W. F., Evans, M. K., Zonderman, A. B., & Waldstein, S. R. (2019). Lifetime Discrimination Burden, Racial Discrimination, and Subclinical Cerebrovascular Disease among African Americans. Health Psychology, 38(1), 63–74. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000638 |
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Everyday Discrimination and Metabolic Syndrome Incidence in a Racially/ Ethnically Diverse Sample: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation
This study investigated whether everyday discrimination predicted incident metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a diverse sample. Beatty Moody, D. L., Chang, Y., Brown, C., Bromberger, J. T., & Matthews, K. A. (2018). Everyday Discrimination and Metabolic Syndrome Incidence in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Sample. Psychosomatic Medicine, 80(1), 114–121. https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000000516 |
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Thresholds for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study
This study determined blood pressure thresholds for ambulatory hypertension in a US population-based sample of African American adults. Ravenell, J., Shimbo, D., Booth, J. N., Sarpong, D. F., Agyemang, C., Beatty Moody, D. L., Abdalla, M., Spruill, T. M., Shallcross, A. J., Bress, A. P., Muntner, P., & Ogedegbe, G. (2017). Thresholds for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study. Circulation, 135(25), 2470–2480. https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.116.027051 |
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Lifetime Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Ambulatory Blood Pressure:
The Moderating Effect of Age The purpose of this research was to determine whether the relationships of lifetime discrimination to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) varied as a function of age in a sample of Black and Latino adults. Beatty Moody, D. L., Waldstein, S. R., Tobin, J. N., Cassells, A., Schwartz, J. C., & Brondolo, E. (2016). Lifetime Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Ambulatory Blood Pressure: The Moderating Effect of Age. Health Psychology, 35(4), 333–342. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000270 |
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Cross-sectional Relations of Race and Poverty Status to Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan (HANDLS) Study
This study examined interactive relations of race and poverty status with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in a socioeconomically diverse sample of urban-dwelling African American (AA) and White adults. Waldstein, S. R., Moody, D. L. B., McNeely, J. M., Allen, A. J., Sprung, M. R., Shah, M. T., Al’Najjar, E., Evans, M. K., & Zonderman, A. B. (2016). Cross-sectional Relations of Race and Poverty Status to Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan (HANDLS) Study. BMC Public Health, 16, 258. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2945-9 |
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Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Inflammation Across 7-Years in Racially Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation
The goals of this study were to determine whether C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation and risk factor for future cardiovascular disease was independently predicted by everyday discrimination or whether race or body mass index modified this association. Beatty Moody, D. L., Brown, C., Matthews, K. A., & Bromberger, J. T. (2014b). Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Inflammation across 7-Years in Racially Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women’s Health across the Nation. Journal of Social Issues, 70(2), 298–314. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12061 |
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Unfair Treatment is Associated with Poor Sleep in African American and Caucasian Adults: Pittsburgh SleepSCORE Project
The purpose of this study was to test the association between self-reported unfair treatment and objective and self-reported sleep characteristics in African American and Caucasian adults. Beatty, D. L., Hall, M. H., Kamarck, T. A., Buysse, D. J., Owens, J. F., Reis, S. E., Mezick, E. J., Strollo, P. J., & Matthews, K. A. (2011). Unfair Treatment is Associated with Poor Sleep in African American and Caucasian adults: Pittsburgh SleepSCORE Project. Health Psychology, 30(3), 351–359. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022976 |
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Childhood Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Psychosocial Resources in African Americans: The Pittsburgh Healthy Heart Project
The purpose of this study was to determine whether lower childhood socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with fewer psychosocial resources independent of adult SES, and whether these associations differed by race/ethnicity. Beatty, D. L., Kamarck, T. W., Matthews, K. A., & Shiffman, S. (2011). Childhood Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Psychosocial Resources in African Americans: The Pittsburgh Healthy Heart Project. Health Psychology, 30(4), 472–480. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024304 |
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Unfair Treatment and Trait Anger in Relation to Nighttime Blood Pressure Among African American and White Adolescents
The purpose of this study was to determine if ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) at night relative to day among adolescents is influenced by unfair treatment and trait anger, and whether these associations are stronger in African Americans and adolescents from lower socioeconomic status (SES) families and neighborhoods. Beatty, D. L., & Matthews, K. A. (2009). Unfair Treatment and Trait Anger in Relation to Nighttime Ambulatory Blood Pressure in African American and White Adolescents. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71(8), 813–820. https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0b013e3181b3b6f8 |
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Sociodemographic Variations in Self-Reported Racism in a Community Sample of Blacks and Latinos
This study investigated dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES) and self-reported racism among Black and Latino(a) urban-dwelling adults. Brondolo, E., Beatty, D. L., Cubbin, C., Pencille, M., Saegert, S., Wellington, R., Tobin, J., Cassells, A., & Schwartz, J. (2009). Sociodemographic Variations in Self-Reported Racism in a Community Sample of Blacks and Latino(a)s. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39(2), 407–429. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00444.x |
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Coping With Racism: A Selective Review of the Literature and a Theoretical and Methodological Critique
The aim of this paper is to identify and discuss key issues in the study of individual-level strategies for coping with interpersonal racism. Brondolo, E., Brady ver Halen, N., Pencille, M., Beatty, D., & Contrada, R. J. (2009). Coping with Racism: A Selective Review of the Literature and a Theoretical and Methodological Critique. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 32(1), 64–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-008-9193-0 |
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Racism and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in a Community Sample
The goal of the present article was to investigate the relationship of perceived racism to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) in a sample of American-born Blacks and Latinos. Brondolo, E., Libby, D. J., Denton, E.-, Thompson, S., Beatty, D. L., Schwartz, J., Sweeney, M., Tobin, J. N., Cassells, A., Pickering, T. G., & Gerin, W. (2008). Racism and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in a Community Sample. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70(1), 49–56. https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0b013e31815ff3bd |