Socioeconomic factors and leukocyte telomere length in a multi-ethnic sample: Findings from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 28, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-114

  Carroll, Judith E ^a   Diez Roux, Ana V ^b   Adler, Nancy E ^c   Seeman, Teresa E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological aging; Cellular aging; Childhood SES; Ethnicity; Home ownership; Parental education; Socioeconomic status; Telomere length; Wealth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HISPANIC; HOME; HUMAN; INCOME; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; TELOMERE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCOME; LEUKOCYTES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84872202533     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2012.10.024     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Adams P., Hurd M.D., McFadden D., Merrill A., Ribeiro T. Healthy, wealthy, and wise? Tests for direct causal paths between health and socioeconomic status. J. Econometrics 2003, 112(1):3-56.
2. Adams J.M. Biological ageing: a fundamental, biological link between socio-economic status and health?. Eur. J. Public Health 2004, 14(3):331-334.
3. Adams J., Martin-Ruiz C., Pearce M.S., White M., Parker L., von Zglinicki T. No association between socio-economic status and white blood cell telomere length. Aging Cell 2007, 6:125-128.
4. Adler N.E., Ostrove J.M. Socioeconomic status and health: what we know and what we don't. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1999, 896:3-15.
5. Adler N., Pantell M., O'Donovan A., Blackburn E., Cawthon R., Koster A., Opresko P., et al. Educational attainment and late life telomere length in the health, aging and body composition study. Brain Behav. Immun. 2012.
6. Aviv A. Telomeres and human aging: facts and fibs. Sci. Aging Knowledge Environ.: SAGE KE 2004, 2004(51):43.
7. Aviv A., Chen W., Gardner J.P., Kimura M., Brimacombe M., Cao X., Srinivasan S.R., Berenson G.S. Leukocyte telomere dynamics: longitudinal findings among young adults in the Bogalusa heart study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2009, 169:323-329.
8. Aviv A., Valdes A., Gardner J.P., Swaminathan R., Kimura M., Spector T.D. Menopause modifies the association of leukocyte telomere length with insulin resistance and inflammation. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2006, 91(2):635-640. 10.1210/jc.2005-1814.
9. Bakaysa S.L., Mucci L.A., Slagboom P.E., Boomsma D.I., McClearn G.E., Johansson B., Pedersen N.L. Telomere length predicts survival independent of genetic influences. Aging Cell 2007, 6:769.
10. Batty G.D., Wang Y., Brouilette S.W., Shiels P., Packard C., Moore J., Samani N.J., Ford I. Socioeconomic status and telomere length: the west of Scotland coronary prevention study. J. Epidemiol. Commun. Health 2009, 63:839-841.
11. Baum A., Garofalo J.P., Yali A.M. Socioeconomic status and chronic stress. Does stress account for SES effects on health?. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1999, 896:131-144.
12. Bekaert S., De Meyer T., Rietzschel E.R., De Buyzere M.L., De Bacquer D., Langlois M., Segers P., et al. Telomere length and cardiovascular risk factors in a middle-aged population free of overt cardiovascular disease. Aging Cell 2007, 6(5):639-647.
13. Bild D.E. Multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis: objectives and design. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2002, 156:871-881.
14. Bird C.E., Seeman T., Escarce J.J., Basurto-Dávila R., Finch B.K., Dubowitz T., Heron M., Hale L., Merkin S.S., Weden M., et al. Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and biological "wear and tear" in a nationally representative sample of US adults. J. Epidemiol. Community Health 2010, 64:860-865.
15. Brouilette S., Singh R.K., Thompson J.R., Goodall A.H., Samani N.J. White cell telomere length and risk of premature myocardial infarction. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. 2003, 23:842-846.
16. Carroll J.E., Cohen S., Marsland A.L. Early childhood socioeconomic status is associated with circulating interleukin-6 among mid-life adults. Brain Behav. Immun. 2011, 25:1468-1474.
17. Cawthon R.M. Telomere measurement by quantitative PCR. Nucleic Acids Res. 2002, 30. 47e-47.
18. Cherkas L.F., Aviv A., Valdes A.M., Hunkin J.L., Gardner J.P., Surdulescu G.L., Kimura M., Spector T.D. The effects of social status on biological aging as measured by white-blood-cell telomere length. Aging Cell 2006, 5:361-365.
19. Cherkas L.F., Hunkin J.L., Kato B.S., Richards J.B., Gardner J.P., Surdulescu G.L., Kimura M., Lu X., Spector T.D., Aviv A. The association between physical activity in leisure time and leukocyte telomere length. Arch. Intern. Med. 2008, 168:154-158.
20. Diez Roux A.V., Detrano R., Jackson S., Jacobs D.R., Schreiner P.J., Shea S., Szklo M. Acculturation and socioeconomic position as predictors of coronary calcification in a multiethnic sample. Circulation 2005, 112(11):1557-1565.
21. Diez-Roux A.V., Ranjit N., Jenny N.S., Shea S., Cushman M., Fitzpatrick A., Seeman T. Race/ethnicity and telomere length in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Aging Cell 2009, 8:251-257.
22. Ehrlenbach S., Willeit P., Kiechl S., Willeit J., Reindl M., Schanda K., Kronenberg F., Brandstätter A. Influences on the reduction of relative telomere length over 10 years in the population-based Bruneck study: introduction of a well-controlled high-throughput assay. Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009, 38:1725-1734.
23. Epel E., Blackburn E., Lin J., Dhabhar F., Adler N., Morrow J., Cawthon R. Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2004, 101:17312-17315.
24. Epel E.S., Lin J., Wilhelm F.H., Wolkowitz O.M., Cawthon R., Adler N.E., Dolbier C., Mendes W.B., Blackburn E.H. Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2006, 31:277-287.
25. Farzaneh-Far R., Cawthon R.M., Na B., Browner W.S., Schiller N.B., Whooley M.A. Prognostic value of leukocyte telomere length in patients with stable coronary artery disease: data from the heart and soul study. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. 2008, 28:1379-1384.
26. Fitzpatrick A.L., Kronmal R.A., Gardner J.P., Psaty B.M., Jenny N.S., Tracy R.P., Walston J., Kimura M., Aviv A. Leukocyte telomere length and cardiovascular disease in the cardiovascular health study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2007, 165:14-21.
27. Gallo L.C., de Los Monteros K.E., Allison M., Roux A.D., Polak J.F., Watson K.E., Morales L.S. Do socioeconomic gradients in subclinical atherosclerosis vary according to acculturation level? analyses of Mexican-Americans in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Psychosom. Med. 2009, 71:756-762.
28. Gallo L.C., Penedo F.J., Espinosa de los Monteros K., Arguelles W. Resiliency in the face of disadvantage: do Hispanic cultural characteristics protect health outcomes?. J. Pers. 2009, 77:1707-1746.
29. Golden S.H., Lee H.B., Schreiner P.J., Roux A.D., Fitzpatrick A.L., Szklo M., Lyketsos C. Depression and type 2 diabetes mellitus: the multiethnic study of atherosclerosis. Psychosom. Med. 2007, 69:529-536.
30. Gruenewald T.L., Karlamangla A.S., Hu P., Stein-Merkin S., Crandall C., Koretz B., Seeman T.E. History of socioeconomic disadvantage and allostatic load in later life. Soc. Sci. Med. 2012, 74:75-83.
31. Haan M., Kaplan G.A., Camacho T. Poverty and health. Prospective evidence from the alameda county study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 1987, 125:989-998.
32. Hajat A., Kaufman J.S., Rose K.M., Siddiqi A., Thomas J.C. Long-term effects of wealth on mortality and self-rated health status. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2011, 173(2):192-200.
33. Hunt S.C., Chen W., Gardner J.P., Kimura M., Srinivasan S.R., Eckfeldt J.H., Berenson G.S., et al. Leukocyte telomeres are longer in African Americans than in whites: the national heart, lung, and blood institute family heart study and the Bogalusa heart study. Aging Cell 2008, 7(4):451-458.
34. Jeanclos E., Schork N.J., Kyvik K.O., Kimura M., H J., Aviv A., Skurnick J.H. Telomere length inversely correlates with pulse pressure and is highly familial. Hypertension 2000, 36:195-200.
35. Karlamangla A.S., Singer B.H., Williams D.R., Schwartz J.E., Matthews K.A., Kiefe C.I., Seeman T.E. Impact of socioeconomic status on longitudinal accumulation of cardiovascular risk in young adults: the CARDIA study (USA). Soc. Sci. Med. 2005, 60:999-1015.
36. Lemelin E.T., Diez Roux A.V., Franklin T.G., Carnethon M., Lutsey P.L., Ni H., O'Meara E., et al. Life-course socioeconomic positions and subclinical atherosclerosis in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Soc. Sci. Med. (1982) 2009, 68(3):444-451.
37. Lutsey P.L., Diez Roux A.V., Jacobs D.R., Burke G.L., Harman J., Shea S., Folsom A.R. Associations of acculturation and socioeconomic status with subclinical cardiovascular disease in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Am. J. Public Health 2008, 98(11):1963-1970.
38. McEwen B.S. Allostasis and allostatic load: implications for neuropsychopharmacology. Neuropsychopharmacology 2000, 22:108-124.
39. Merkin S.S., Basurto-Dávila R., Karlamangla A., Bird C.E., Lurie N., Escarce J., Seeman T. Neighborhoods and cumulative biological risk profiles by race/ethnicity in a national sample of U.S. adults: NHANES III. Ann. Epidemiol. 2009, 19:194-201.
40. Needham, B.L., Fernandez, J.R., Lin, J., Epel, E.S., Blackburn, E.H., 2012. Socioeconomic status and cell aging in children. Soc. Sci. Med. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.019.
41. Nettleton J.A., Diez-Roux A., Jenny N.S., Fitzpatrick A.L., Jacobs D.R. Dietary patterns, food groups, and telomere length in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2008, 88:1405-1412.
42. O'Donovan A., Pantell M.S., Puterman E., Dhabhar F.S., Blackburn E.H., Yaffe K., Cawthon R.M., et al. Cumulative inflammatory load is associated with short leukocyte telomere length in the health, aging and body composition study. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(5):e19687.
43. Parks C.G., Miller D.B., McCanlies E.C., Cawthon R.M., Andrew M.E., DeRoo L.A., Sandler D.P. Telomere length, current perceived stress, and urinary stress hormones in women. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 2009, 18:551-560.
44. Pearce M.S., Mann K.D., Martin-Ruiz C., Parker L., White M., von Zglinicki T., Adams J. Childhood growth, IQ and education as predictors of white blood cell telomere length at age 49-51 years: the newcastle thousand families study. PLoS ONE 2012, 7(7):e40116.
45. Ranjit N., Diez-Roux A.V., Shea S., Cushman M., Ni H., Seeman T. Socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, and inflammation in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Circulation 2007, 116(21):2383-2390.
46. Ranjit N., Diez Roux A.V., Shea S., Cushman M., Seeman T., Jackson S., et al. Psychosocial factors and inflammation in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Arch. Intern. Med. 2007, 167:174-181.
47. Robertson T., Batty G.D., Der G., Green M.J., McGlynn L.M., McIntyre A., Shiels P.G., et al. Is telomere length socially patterned? Evidence from the west of Scotland twenty-07 study. PLoS ONE 2012, 7(7):e41805.
48. Robles T.F., Carroll J.E. Restorative biological processes and health. Soc. Pers. Psychol. Compass 2011, 5:518-537.
49. Seeman T., Epel E., Gruenewald T., Karlamangla A., McEwen B.S. Socio-economic differentials in peripheral biology: cumulative allostatic load. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 2010, 1186:223-239.
50. Shiels P.G., McGlynn L.M., Macintyre A., Johnson P.C.D., Batty G.D., Burns H., Cavanagh J., et al. Accelerated telomere attrition is associated with relative household income, diet and inflammation in the pSoBid cohort. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(7):e22521.
51. Steptoe A., Feldman P.J. Neighborhood problems as sources of chronic stress: development of a measure of neighborhood problems, and associations with socioeconomic status and health. Ann. Behav. Med. 2001, 23:177-185.
52. Steptoe A., Hamer M., Butcher L., Lin J., Brydon L., Kivimäki M., Marmot M., Blackburn E., Erusalimsky J.D. Educational attainment but not measures of current socioeconomic circumstances are associated with leukocyte telomere length in healthy older men and women. Brain Behav. Immun. 2011, 25:1292-1298.
53. Weng N. Interplay between telomere length and telomerase in human leukocyte differentiation and aging abstract:blood leukocytes derive from bone. J. Leukoc. Biol. 2001, 70:861-867.
54. Willeit P., Willeit J., Mayr A., Weger S., Oberhollenzer F., Brandstätter A., Kronenberg F., Kiechl S. Telomere length and risk of incident cancer and cancer mortality. JAMA 2010, 304:69-75.
55. Woo J., Suen E.W.C., Leung J.C.S., Tang N.L.S., Ebrahim S. Older men with higher self-rated socioeconomic status have shorter telomeres. Age Ageing 2009, 38:553-558.
56. Yen I.H., Kaplan G.A. Poverty area residence and changes in depression and perceived health status: evidence from the alameda county study. Int. J. Epidemiol. 1999, 28:90-94.
57. Yen I.H., Michael Y.L., Perdue L. Neighborhood environment in studies of health of older adults: a systematic review. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2009, 37:455-463.
58. Yen I.H., Syme S.L. The social environment and health: a discussion of the epidemiologic literature. Ann. Rev. Public Health 1999, 20:287-308.
59. von Zglinicki T. Oxidative stress shortens telomeres. Trends Biochem. Sci. 2002, 27:339-344.