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Body dissatisfaction widens the racial disparities of Benzophenone-3, a chemical biomarker of personal care and consumer product usage.

Vy Kim NguyenSamuel ZimmermanJustin ColacinoOlivier JollietChirag J Patel
Published in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2024)
First integration of measures of body dissatisfaction with national chemical biomonitoring dataAnalyzed data from a diverse US nationally representative sample of 3,072 womenMinority women with body dissatisfaction show higher BP3 levels independent of sunscreen use and BMIMinimal differences in BP3 levels by body dissatisfaction in non-Hispanic White womenDeveloped a visualization tool to show how racial disparities widen due to body dissatisfaction.
Keyphrases
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