TY - JOUR T1 - Multiple Dimensions of Perceived Discrimination, Race-Ethnicity, and Mortality Risk Among Older Adults JF - Innovation in Aging Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ryon J. Cobb KW - mortality risk KW - Perceived Discrimination KW - race-ethnicity AB - The present study utilized data from the Health and Retirement Study (N=12,988) to investigate the joint consequences of multiple dimensions of perceived discrimination on mortality risk. Perceived discrimination is based on responses from the 2006/2008 HRS waves and included everyday discrimination, the number of attributed reasons for everyday discrimination, and major lifetime discrimination. Vital status was obtained from the National Death Index and reports from key household informants (spanning 2006–2016). Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the risk of mortality. During the observation period, 3,494 deaths occurred. Only the number of attributed reasons for discrimination predicted mortality risk when all discrimination measures were estimated in the same model (Hazard Ratio [HR]=1.09; 95%, Confidence Interval [CI]=1.05 - 1.14), holding all else constant. Overall, the number of attributed reasons for everyday discrimination is a particularly salient risk factor for mortality in later life. VL - 4 SN - 2399-5300 IS - Suppl 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - RACE BY AGE PATTERNS IN KIDNEY FUNCTIONING AMONG OLDER ADULTS: EVIDENCE FROM THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY JF - Innovation in Aging Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ryon J. Cobb KW - kidney KW - kidney functioning KW - race KW - race-ethnicity AB - The present study considers how race combines with chronological age to shape kidney function among older adults. We analyzed cross-sectional data from a nationally representative study of older adults. Our measure of kidney function derived from the cystatin C-based estimated glomerular filtration rate. We use a pattern variable to divide White and Black respondents into four groups based on their age group membership: early midlife (age 52–59), late midlife (age 60–69), young old (age 70–79), and oldest old (80s+ years). Results from our ordinary least squares models reveal that Blacks and Whites in late midlife, young old, and oldest old exhibited poorer kidney function than Whites in early midlife. Our study uncovers evidence of race by age disparities in kidney function among older adults. Future longitudinal studies will provide further insight into how and why race combines with age to pattern kidney function over time. VL - 3 SN - 2399-5300 IS - Suppl 1 ER -