ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity2009
To assess, to control, to exclude: effects of biobehavioral factors on circulating inflammatory markers.
Article in Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06263452 (Beta-Blocker Influences on Inflammatory and Neural Responses to Stress), which is not on this map. Cited by 307 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Beta-Blocker Influences on Inflammatory and Neural Responses to Stress
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307 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Link Between Positive and Negative Parenting Behaviors and Child Inflammation: A Systematic Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Pooled it
- An evidence review of the association of immune and inflammatory markers with obesity-related eating behaviors.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Pooled it
- The longitudinal associations of inflammatory biomarkers and depression revisited: systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Adverse Childhood Events and Health Biomarkers: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Socioeconomic status and inflammation: a meta-analysis.Molecular psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- The effect of acute stress on salivary markers of inflammation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2020Pooled it
- Early life adversity exposure and circulating markers of inflammation in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2020Pooled it
- Replication and reproducibility issues in the relationship between C-reactive protein and depression: A systematic review and focused meta-analysis.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2018Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokine and Tryptophan Catabolite Alterations in Psychiatric Patients: Comparisons Between Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Depression.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2018Pooled it
- Insomnia and inflammatory exposure impair spatial memory and cognitive mapping in older adults: a randomized controlled trial.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2026Trial
- Biological correlates of cancer-related fatigue in older male cancer survivors.Translational psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Inflammation-induced depressed mood and reward responsivity as a function of age in female adults: a randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.Translational psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Improving biobehavioral health in younger breast cancer survivors: Pathways to Wellness trial secondary outcomes.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2023Trial
- Brief Post-Surgical Stress Management Reduces Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Overweight and Obese Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Primary Treatment.Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) · 2022Trial
- Effects of web-based cognitive behavioral stress management and health promotion interventions on neuroendocrine and inflammatory markers in men with advanced prostate cancer: A randomized controlled trial.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2021Trial
- Effects of brief stress management interventions on distress and leukocyte nuclear factor kappa B expression during primary treatment for breast cancer: A randomized trial.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Trial
- Inflammation Mediates Exercise Effects on Fatigue in Patients with Breast Cancer.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2021Trial
- The Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Intervention on Inflammation and Stress Biomarkers: a Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Trial
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- Moderators for depressed mood and systemic and transcriptional inflammatory responses: a randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Trial
247 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Behavioral scientists have increasingly included inflammatory biology as mechanisms in their investigation of psychosocial dynamics on the pathobiology of disease. However, a lack of standardization of inclusion and exclusion criteria and assessment of relevant control variables impacts the interpretation of these studies. The present paper reviews and discusses human biobehavioral factors that can affect the measurement of circulating markers of inflammation. Keywords relevant to inflammatory biology and biobehavioral factors were searched through PubMed. Age, sex, and hormonal status, socioeconomic status, ethnicity and race, body mass index, exercise, diet, caffeine, smoking, alcohol, sleep disruption, antidepressants, aspirin, and medications for cardiovascular disease are all reviewed. A tiered set of recommendations as to whether each variable should be assessed, controlled for, or used as an exclusion criteria is provided. These recommendations provide a framework for observational and intervention studies investigating linkages between psychosocial and behavioral factors and inflammation.
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