ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2012
Early childhood poverty, immune-mediated disease processes, and adult productivity.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 96 citations in OpenAlex.
- Article
- Introducing theJournal of marriage and the family · 2026Article
- Epigenetic biomarkers of socioeconomic status are associated with age-related chronic diseases and mortality in older adults.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Early Life Adversity, Microbiome, and Inflammatory Responses.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- The mediating role of child delay of gratification in the link between early and prolonged poverty exposure and adolescent allostatic load.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Early Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive and Adaptive Outcomes at the Transition to Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Gray Matter Development Across Five Scan Waves.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2022Article
- 'Improving Health through Reducing Stress': Parents' Priorities in the Participatory Development of a Multilevel Family Health Programme in a Low-Income Neighbourhood in The Netherlands.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Parental income gradients in adult health: a national cohort study.BMC medicine · 2021Article
- Immune and Epigenetic Pathways Linking Childhood Adversity and Health Across the Lifespan.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Effects of the Global Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Term Risks and Mitigating Program and Policy Actions.The Journal of pediatrics · 2020Article
- Considerations for an Individual-Level Population Notification System for Pandemic Response: A Review and Prototype.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Review
- Type and Lengths of Family Leave Among New York City Women: Exploring the Composition of Paid and Unpaid Leave.Maternal and child health journal · 2020Article
- Parental Income and Children's Life Course: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2018Article
- Early adolescent adversity inflates threat estimation in females and promotes alcohol use initiation in both sexes.Behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability Among Children in the United States.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2018Article
- Adult health returns to education by key childhood social and economic indicators: Results from representative European data.SSM - population health · 2017Article
- Early life adversity: Lasting consequences for emotional learning.Neurobiology of stress · 2017Review
- Moving Beyond Correlations in Assessing the Consequences of Poverty.Annual review of psychology · 2017Review
- Health returns to education by family socioeconomic origins, 1980-2008: Testing the importance of gender, cohort, and age.SSM - population health · 2016Article
- Arthritis and suicide attempts: findings from a large nationally representative Canadian survey.Rheumatology international · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
This study seeks to understand whether poverty very early in life is associated with early-onset adult conditions related to immune-mediated chronic diseases. It also tests the role that these immune-mediated chronic diseases may play in accounting for the associations between early poverty and adult productivity. Data (n = 1,070) come from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics and include economic conditions in utero and throughout childhood and adolescence coupled with adult (age 30-41 y) self-reports of health and economic productivity. Results show that low income, particularly in very early childhood (between the prenatal and second year of life), is associated with increases in early-adult hypertension, arthritis, and limitations on activities of daily living. Moreover, these relationships and particularly arthritis partially account for the associations between early childhood poverty and adult productivity as measured by adult work hours and earnings. The results suggest that the associations between early childhood poverty and these adult disease states may be immune-mediated.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.