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Discrimination Linked to Anxiety Risk by Colleen Fleiss on  January 17, 2021 at 12:06 AM Discrimination may increase the risk of anxiety disorders regardless of genetics, said a multidisciplinary team of health researchers led by Tufts University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Researchers determined that even after controlling for genetic risk for anxiety, depression, and neuroticism, greater reports of discrimination experiences remained associated with higher scores of anxiety and related disorders. The findings, recently published in Proceedings of t...

Findings, the first of their kind, could help drive public health policy on reducing impact of discrimination on mental health "From regular slights...