According to the report of the English news website CNN, researchers have defined discrimination as unfair conditions or disliked behaviour at work because of personal characteristics such as race, gender or age. This research suggests that prolonged exposure to discrimination can lead to sustained stress responses within the cardiovascular system and increased blood pressure leading to frailty.
Long term research
According to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers analyzed 1,246 people from the beginning of 2004 to 2006. The people involved told that they did not have high blood pressure at the beginning of the research. Most of the people involved in this were either smoking or drinking heavily or they were completely away from both of these things. Researchers followed these people for almost eight years in 2013 and 2014.
How was the assessment done?
To assess the level of discrimination, the people involved in the research filled out a survey paper. The survey included questions such as whether they experienced unfair treatment at work, whether they were looked down upon more closely than others at work, whether they often felt neglected at work or whether job promotions were given fairly. we're done. More than 93 per cent of the people in this survey were white and about 52 per cent were women. Nearly a third of people in the research were under 45, a third were between 46 and 55 and a third were over 56.
