Baron Lab

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NIH R01 · 2024

Addressing sleep health disparities from within: A community-engaged study to understanding sleep and cardiometabolic disease risk among women of color

Women from communities with greater challenges to health and healthcare, including Black/African American, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and African communities, have increased rates of cardiometabolic disorders (e.g., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension). Although epidemiologic studies demonstrate short sleep duration and poor sleep quality increase cardiometabolic disease risk, few studies have examined mechanisms of short sleep duration and poor sleep quality from the perspectives of women from these four communities. This project builds on our team’s collaboration with Community Faces of Utah, an organization that links the University of Utah and Utah Department…

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