Childhood adversity, adult neighborhood context, and cumulative biological risk for chronic diseases in adulthood

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 481-489

  Slopen, Natalie ^a,b   Williams, David R ^c,d   Roberts, Andrea L ^c   Albert, Michelle A ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostatic load; Childhood adversity; Cumulative biological risk; Neighborhoods; Social environment

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; ADULT NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; RESTING HEART RATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; HEART RATE; ILLINOIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHICAGO; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84914670167     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000081     Document Type: Article

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