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Factors contributing to excess heart failure risk among Black women remain incompletely understood.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To characterize the associations of components of psychosocial stress, including experiences of interpersonal racism and childhood or adolescent abuse, with heart failure development among Black women.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>\n This was a prospective cohort study with baseline assessment in 1997 for racism and 2005 for abuse variables and median follow-up of 24 years (IQR, 16-24 years), ending in 2023. The cohort included Black Women\u2019s Health Study participants who were free from heart failure at baseline. Participants resided across all geographic regions of the US.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Exposures<\/jats:title>\n Participants completed questionnaires on perceived interpersonal racism, including questions on everyday interactions and perceived discrimination in employment, housing, or with police. Self-reported type and frequency of childhood or adolescent abuse were also ascertained.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Main Outcome and Measures<\/jats:title>\n Incident heart failure, ascertained via questionnaire. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to assess prospective associations of psychosocial stress exposures with incident heart failure.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Among 48\u202f320 Black women (median age at baseline, 40 years [IQR, 32-48 years]; median baseline body mass index [BMI], 27 [IQR, 24-32]), 1343 heart failure events were observed. Perceived discrimination in employment, housing, or interactions with police was associated with increased heart failure risk, with the highest risk observed in the 11% of participants who experienced discrimination in all 3 domains (hazard ratio [HR], 1.27 [95% CI, 1.06-1.52] in multivariate models). The HR for highest (vs lowest) quartile of daily racism score was 1.23 (95% CI, 1.05-1.45) in age-adjusted analyses but was attenuated to 1.04 (95% CI, 0.88-1.22) after adjustment for clinical risk factors. Frequent childhood (HR, 1.54; 95% CI, 1.16-2.06) or adolescent (HR, 1.86; 95% CI, 1.34-2.58) sexual assault (\u22654 times) was associated with elevated heart failure risk, with some attenuation after multivariable adjustment, although adolescent abuse remained significant (HR, 1.44; 95% CI, 1.04-2.00). In mediation analysis, BMI was observed to be a partial mediator (proportion mediated, 19.6%-35.9%) of the associations of childhood or adolescent sexual abuse (\u22654 times) with incident heart failure.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n In this cohort study of US Black women, perceived interpersonal racism and sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence were associated with increased heart failure risk decades later; as these exposures are more prevalent among Black than White women, they may represent risk factors that contribute to heart failure disparities. 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