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“Specifically, black boys exhibit significantly higher levels of cortisol if exposed to a [police-related death] in the 30 days prior… exposure in the last 30 days is associated with a 46% increase in average salivary cortisol.” But no effect on stress of white youth.

Exposure to Police-Related Deaths and Physiological Stress Among Urban Black Youth

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Browning, Christopher R. / Tarrence, Jake / LaPlant, Eric / Boettner, Bethany / Schmeer, Kammi / Calder, Catherine A. / Way, Baldwin M. / Ford, Jodi L.

in Press, 2020

10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104884

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