Childhood/Adolescent stressors and allostatic load in adulthood: Support for a calibration model

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 193, Issue , 2017, Pages 130-139

  Berg, Mark T ^a   Simons, Ronald L ^b   Barr, Ashley ^c   Beach, Steven R H ^b   Philibert, Robert A ^d  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostatic load; Calibration; Childhood and adolescent stressors; Life course; Social determinants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOMARKER; CALIBRATION; CHILD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALLOSTASIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; BLACK PERSON; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; COMPLICATION; ETHNOLOGY; IOWA; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLOSTASIS; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; GEORGIA; GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; IOWA; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85030238166     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.028     Document Type: Article

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