Psychosocial distress and inflammation: Which way does causality flow?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-8

  Das, Aniruddha ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inflammation; NSHAP; Older adults; Psychosocial distress

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ELDERLY POPULATION; GENDER DISPARITY; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; AGE; CAUSALITY; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAUSALITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84989955773     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.001     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Baune, B.T., Smith, E., Reppermund, S., Air, T., Samaras, K., Lux, O., et al. Inflammatory biomarkers predict depressive, but not anxiety symptoms during aging: the prospective Sydney Memory and Aging Study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 37 (2012), 1521–1530.
2. Berk, M., Williams, L.J., Jacka, F.N., O'Neil, A., Pasco, J.A., Moylan, S., et al. So depression is an inflammatory disease, but where does the inflammation come from?. BMC Med., 11, 2013 art. no. 200.
3. Bierhaus, A., et al. A mechanism converting psychosocial stress into mononuclear cellactivation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A 100 (2003), 1920–1925.
4. Capuron, L., Miller, A.H., Immune system to brain signaling: neuropsychopharmacological implications. Pharmacol. Ther. 130 (2011), 226–238.
5. Carpenter, L.L., Gawuga, C.E., Tyrka, A.R., Lee, J.K., Anderson, G.M., Price, L.H., Association between plasma IL-6 response to acute stress and early-life adversity in healthy adults. Neuropsychopharmacology 35 (2010), 2617–2623.
6. Carr, D., Utz, R., Late-life widowhood in the United States: new directions in research and theory. Ageing Int. 27 (2002), 65–88.
7. Chiu, H.-M., Lin, J.-T., Chen, T.H.-H., Lee, Y.-C., Chiu, Y.-H., Liang, J.-T., et al. Elevation of C-reactive protein level is associated with synchronous and advanced colorectal neoplasm in men. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 103 (2008), 2317–2325.
8. Cohen, S., Kamarck, T., Mermelstein, R., A global measure of perceived stress. J. Health Soc. Behav. 24 (1983), 386–396.
9. Cole, S.R., Hernán, M.A., Constructing inverse probability weights for marginal structural models. Am. J. Epidemiol. 168 (2008), 656–664.
10. Cole, S.R., Hernán, M.A., Margolick, J.B., Cohen, M.H., Robins, J.M., Marginal structural models for estimating the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy initiation on CD4 cell count. Am. J. Epidemiol. 162 (2005), 471–478.
11. Copeland, W.E., Shanahan, L., Worthman, C., Angold, A., Costello, E.J., Cumulative depression episodes predict later C-reactive protein levels: a prospective analysis. Biol. Psychiatry 71 (2012), 15–21.
12. Cuijpers, P., Vogelzangs, N., Twisk, J., et al. Comprehensive meta-analysis of excess mortality in depression in the general community versus patients with specific illnesses. Am. J. Psychiatry 171 (2014), 453–462.
13. Curran, P.J., A latent curve framework for the study of developmental trajectories in adolescent substance use. Rose, J.S., Chassin, L., Presson, C.C., Sherman, S.J., (eds.) Multivariate Applications in Substance Use Research: New Methods for New Questions, 2000, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 1–4.
14. Danesh, J., et al. Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses. BMJ 321 (2000), 199–204.
15. Duivis, H.E., De Jonge, P., Penninx, B.W., Na, B.Y., Cohen, B.E., Whooley, M.A., Depressive symptoms, health behaviors, and subsequent inflammation in patients with coronary heart disease: prospective findings from the heart and soul study. Am. J. Psychiatry 168 (2011), 913–920.
16. Elwert, F., Christakis, N.A., Widowhood and race. Am. Sociol. Rev. 71 (2006), 16–41.
17. Ford, D.E., Erlinger, T.P., Depression and C-reactive protein in US adults: data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey. Arch. Intern. Med. 164 (2004), 1010–1014.
18. Fuente-Martin, E., Garcia-Caceres, C., Morselli, E., Clegg, D.J., Chowen, J.A., Finan, B., et al. Estrogen, astrocytes and the neuroendocrine control of metabolism. Rev. Endocr. Metab Disord. 14 (2013), 331–338.
19. Gimeno, D., Kivimäki, M., Brunner, E.J., Elovainio, M., De Vogli, R., Steptoe, A., et al. Associations of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 with cognitive symptoms of depression: 12-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study. Psychol. Med. 39 (2009), 413–423.
20. Glassman, A.H., Miller, G.E., Where there is depression, there is inflammation..sometimes!. Biol. Psychiatry 62 (2007), 280–281.
21. Gouin, J.-P., Glaser, R., Malarkey, W.B., Beversdorf, D., Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., Childhood abuse and inflammatory responses to daily stressors. Ann. Behav. Med. 44 (2012), 287–292.
22. Gouin, J.-P., Glaser, R., Malarkey, W.B., Beversdorf, D., Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., Chronic stress, daily stressors, and circulating inflammatory markers. Health Psychol. 31 (2012), 264–268.
23. Grundy, S.M., Brewer, H.B. Jr., Cleeman, J.I., Smith, S.C. Jr., Lenfant, C., Definition of metabolic syndrome: report of the national heart, Lung, and blood institute/american heart association conference on scientific issues related to definition. Arterioscler.Thromb. Thrombosis, Vasc. Biol. 24 (2004), e13–e18.
24. Hayward, M.D., Gorman, B.K., The long arm of childhood: the influence of early-life social conditions on men's mortality. Demography 41 (2004), 87–107.
25. Haroon, E., Raison, C.L., Miller, A.H., Psychoneuroimmunology meets neuropsychopharmacology: translational implications of the impact of inflammation on behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology 37 (2012), 137–162.
26. Hernán, M.A., Brumback, B., Robins, J.M., Marginal structural models to estimate the causal effect of zidovudine on the survival of HIV-positive men. Epidemiology 11 (2000), 561–570.
27. Janicki Deverts, D., Cohen, S., DiLillo, V.G., Lewis, C.E., Kiefe, C., Whooley, M., et al. Depressive symptoms, race, and circulating C-Reactive protein: the coronary Artery risk development in Young adults (CARDIA) study. Psychosom. Med. 72 (2010), 734–741.
28. Kautzky-Willer, A., Harreiter, J., Pacini, G., Sex and gender differences in risk, pathophysiology and complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Endocr. Rev. 37 (2016), 278–316.
29. Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., Derry, H.M., Fagundes, C.P., Inflammation: depression fans the flames and feasts on the heat. Am. J. Psychiatry 172 (2015), 1075–1091.
30. Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., Glaser, R., Cacioppo, J.T., MacCallum, R.C., Snydersmith, M., Kim, C., et al. Marital conflict in older adults: endocrinological and immunological correlates. Psychosom. Med. 59 (1997), 339–349.
31. Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., Gouin, J.-P., Hantsoo, L., Close relationships, inflammation, and health. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 35 (2010), 33–38.
32. Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., Preacher, K.J., MacCallum, R.C., Atkinson, C., Malarkey, W.B., Glaser, R., Chronic stress and age-related increases in the proinflammatory cytokine IL-6. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 100 (2003), 9090–9095.
33. Lagraauw, H.M., Kuiper, J., Bot, I., Acute and chronic psychological stress as risk factors for cardiovascular disease: insights gained from epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies. Brain, Behav. Immun. 50 (2015), 18–30.
34. Lancaster, G.I., Febbraio, M.A., The immunomodulating role of exercise in metabolic disease. Trends Immunol. 35 (2014), 262–269.
35. Leonard, B., Maes, M., Mechanistic explanations how cell-mediated immune activation, inflammation and oxidative and nitrosative stress pathways and their sequels and concomitants play a role in the pathophysiology of unipolar depression. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 36 (2012), 764–785.
36. Lykken, D.T., Tellegen, A., Happiness is a stochastic phenomenon. Psychol. Sci. 7 (1996), 186–189.
37. Matthews, K.A., Schott, L.L., Bromberger, J.T., Cyranowski, J.M., Everson-Rose, S.A., Sowers, M., Are there bi-directional associations between depressive symptoms and C-reactive protein in mid-life women?. Brain, Behav. Immun. 24 (2010), 96–101.
38. McDade, T.W., Early environments and the ecology of inflammation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109 (2012), 17281–17288.
39. McDade, T.W., Hawkley, L.C., Cacioppo, J.T., Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of inflammation in middle-aged and older adults: the Chicago health, aging, and social relations study. Psychosom. Med. 68 (2006), 376–381.
40. McDade, T.W., Hayward, M.D., Rationale and methodological options for assessing infectious disease and related measures in social science surveys. Biodemogr. Soc. Biol. 55 (2009), 159–177.
41. McDade, T.W., Hoke, M., Borja, J.B., Adair, L.S., Kuzawa, C., Do environments in infancy moderate the association between stress and inflammation in adulthood? Initial evidence from a birth cohort in the Philippines. Brain, Behav. Immun. 31 (2013), 23–30.
42. McDade, T.W., Burhop, J., Dohnal, J., High-sensitivity enzyme immunoassay for C-reactive protein in dried blood spots. Clin. Chem. 50 (2004), 652–654.
43. Meier-Ewert, H.K., Ridker, P.M., Rifai, N., Regan, M.M., Price, N.J., Dinges, D.F., et al. Effect of sleep loss on C-Reactive protein, an inflammatory marker of cardiovascular risk. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 43 (2004), 678–683.
44. Melamed, S., Shirom, A., Toker, S., Berliner, S., Shapira, I., Burnout and risk of cardiovascular disease: evidence, possible causal paths, and promising research directions. Psychol. Bull. 132 (2006), 327–353.
45. Milaneschi, Y., Corsi, A.M., Penninx, B.W., Bandinelli, S., Guralnik, J.M., Ferrucci, L., Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist and incident depressive symptoms over 6 years in older persons: the InCHIANTI study. Biol. Psychiatry 65 (2009), 973–978.
46. Miller, A.H., Haroon, E., Raison, C.L., Felger, J.C., Cytokine targets in the brain: impact on neurotransmitters and neurocircuits. Depress. Anxiety 30 (2013), 297–306.
47. Miller, A.H., Maletic, V., Raison, C.L., Inflammation and its discontents: the role of cytokines in the pathophysiology of major depression. Biol. Psychiatry 65 (2009), 732–741.
48. Mukamal, K.J., The effects of smoking and drinking on cardiovascular disease and risk factors. Alcohol Res. Health 29 (2006), 199–202.
49. Muthén, L.K., Muthén, B.O., Mplus User's Guide. Seventh Edition. 1998-2012, Muthén & Muthén, Los Angeles, CA.
50. O'Muircheartaigh, C., English, N., Pedlow, S., Kwok, P.K., Sample design, sample augmentation, and estimation for Wave 2 of the NSHAP. J. Gerontol. - Ser. B Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. 69 (2014), S15–S26.
51. O'Muircheartaigh, C., Smith, S., NSHAP (National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project) Wave 1 Methodology Report., 2007, National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, IL.
52. Owen, N., Poulton, T., Hay, F.C., Mohamed-Ali, V., Steptoe, A., Socioeconomic status, C-reactive protein, immune factors, and responses to acute mental stress: special issue on psychological risk factors and immune system involvement in cardiovascular disease. Brain, Behav. Immun. 17 (2003), 286–295.
53. Pace, T.W.W., Hu, F., Miller, A.H., Cytokine-effects on glucocorticoid receptor function: relevance to glucocorticoid resistance and the pathophysiology and treatment of major depression. Brain, Behav. Immun. 21 (2007), 9–19.
54. Phelan, J.C., Link, B.G., Tehranifar, P., Social conditions as fundamental causes of health inequalities: theory, evidence, and policy implications. J. Health Soc. Behav. 51 (2010), S28–S40.
55. Pradhan, A.D., Manson, J.E., Rifai, N., Buring, J.E., Ridker, P.M., C-reactive protein, interleukin 6, and risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. JAMA 286 (2001), 327–334.
56. Qato, D.M., Schumm, L.P., Johnson, M., Mihai, A., Lindau, S.T., Medication data collection and coding in a home-based survey of older adults. J. Gerontol. Ser. B Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. 64 (2009), i86–i93.
57. Radloff, L.S., The CES-D scale: a self-report depression scale for research in the general population. J. Appl. Psychol. Meas. 1 (1977), 385–401.
58. Raison, C.L., Capuron, L., Miller, A.H., Cytokines sing the blues: inflammation and the pathogenesis of depression. Trends Immunol. 27 (2006), 24–31.
59. Raison, C.L., Miller, A.H., Is depression an inflammatory disorder?. Curr. Psychiatry Rep. 13 (2011), 467–475.
60. Raison, C.L., Miller, A.H., Malaise, melancholia and madness: the evolutionary legacy of an inflammatory bias. Brain, Behav. Immun. 31 (2013), 1–8.
61. Ridker, P.M., Buring, J.E., Cook, N.R., Rifai, N., C-reactive protein, the metabolic syndrome, and risk of incident cardiovascular events: an 8-year follow-up of 14 719 initially healthy American women. Circulation 107 (2003), 391–397.
62. Schnittker, J., Happiness and success: genes, families, and the psychological effects of socioeconomic position and social support. Am. J. Sociol. 114 (2008), S233–S259.
63. Schultze-Florey, C.R., Martínez-Maza, O., Magpantay, L., Breen, E.C., Irwin, M.R., Gündel, H., et al. When grief makes you sick: bereavement induced systemic inflammation is a question of genotype. Brain, Behav. Immun. 26 (2012), 1066–1071.
64. Shaffer, J.A., Edmondson, D., Chaplin, W.F., Schwartz, J.E., Shimbo, D., Burg, M.M., et al. Directionality of the relationship between depressive symptom dimensions and C-reactive protein in patients with acute coronary syndromes. Psychosom. Med. 73 (2011), 370–377.
65. Shelton, R.C., Miller, A.H., Eating ourselves to death (and despair): the contribution of adiposity and inflammation to depression. Prog. Neurobiol. 91 (2010), 275–299.
66. Shiovitz-Ezra, S., Leitsch, S., Graber, J., Karraker, A., Quality of life and psychological health indicators in the national social life, health, and aging project. J. Gerontol. - Ser. B Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. 64 (2009), i30–i37.
67. Simanek, A.M., Cheng, C., Yolken, R., Uddin, M., Galea, S., Aiello, A.E., Herpesviruses, inflammatory markers and incident depression in a longitudinal study of Detroit residents. Psychoneuroendocrinology 50 (2014), 139–148.
68. Slavich, G.M., Irwin, M.R., From stress to inflammation and major depressive disorder: a social signal transduction theory of depression. Psychol. Bull. 140 (2014), 774–815.
69. Slopen, N., Loucks, E.B., Appleton, A.A., Kawachi, I., Kubzansky, L.D., Non, A.L., et al. Early origins of inflammation: an examination of prenatal and childhood social adversity in a prospective cohort study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 51 (2015), 403–413.
70. Smith, S., Jaszczak, A., Graber, J., Lundeen, K., Leitsch, S., Wargo, E., et al. Instrument development, study design implementation, and survey conduct for the national social life, health, and aging project. J. Gerontol. Ser. B Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. 64 (2009), i20–i29.
71. Stata Corp, STATA Release 14.0. 2014, Stata Press, College Station, TX.
72. Stetler, C., Miller, G.E., Depression and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activation: a quantitative summary of four decades of research. Psychosom. Med. 73 (2011), 114–126.
73. Valkanova, V., Ebmeier, K.P., Allan, C.L., CRP, IL-6 and depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. J. Affect. Disord. 150 (2013), 736–744.
74. Weinstein, M., Vaupel, J.W., Wachter, K.W., Biosocial Surveys. 2007, National Academies Press, Washington, D. C.
75. Williams, S.R., McDade, T.W., The use of dried blood spot sampling in the national social life, health, and aging project. J. Geronotol. Soc. Sci. 64B (2009), i131–i136.
76. Williams, S.R., Pham-Kanter, G., Leitsch, S.A., Measures of chronic conditions and diseases associated with aging in the national social life, health, and aging project. J. Gerontol. Ser. B Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. 64 (2009), i67–i75.
77. Willson, A.E., Shuey, K.M., Elder, G.H. Jr., Cumulative advantage processes as mechanisms of inequality in life course health. Am. J. Sociol. 112 (2007), 1886–1924.
78. Yudkin, J.S., Adipose tissue, insulin action and vascular disease: inflammatory signals. Int. J. Obes. 27 (2003), S25–S28.
79. Zigmond, A.S., Snaith, R.P., The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 67 (1983), 361–370.