| Investigator |
| Airín D. Martínez, PhD |
| Project Description |
| Undocumented status and fear of immigration enforcement remains a persistent psycho-environmental stressor that Latina/o immigrants face. There is little evidence delineating the processes in which sociopolitical environmental conditions shape psychosocial stressors, much less the neuroendocrinological response from such stressors among Latina/o immigrants in the US. The purpose of this project is to examine how Latino immigrants’ social, economic, and political chronic stressors in Phoenix, AZ interact with biomarkers for stress (cortisol and α-amylase) and inflammation (C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin (IL-1B, IL-6, IL-8), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), which are directly related to CVD. |