ArticlePsychosomatic medicine2013
Childhood poverty and blood pressure reactivity to and recovery from an acute stressor in late adolescence: the mediating role of family conflict.
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- Poverty and Internalizing Symptoms: The Indirect Effect of Middle Childhood Poverty on Internalizing Symptoms via an Emotional Response Inhibition Pathway.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- The long-term impact of early life poverty on orbitofrontal cortex volume in adulthood: results from a prospective study over 25 years.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2015Article
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objectiveChildhood deprivation is inimical to health throughout the life course. Early experiences of stress could play a role in health inequalities. An important aspect of childhood poverty that has not received much attention is cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from acute stressors.
methodsPiecewise, multilevel growth curve regression was used to examine blood pressure reactivity to and recovery from a mental arithmetic task among late adolescents (mean [standard deviation] = 17.3 [1.0] years, n = 185) as a function of early childhood poverty (9 years). We also tested whether exposure to family conflict at age 13 years mediated expected linkages between childhood poverty and adolescent blood pressure reactivity and recovery to an acute stressor.
resultsBlood pressure reactivity was unaffected by household income during childhood, but late adolescents with lower household income during childhood showed slower systolic (b = -0.29, p = .004) and diastolic (b = -0.19, p = .002) recovery. These results include age and sex as statistical covariates. The significant poverty impact on systolic but not on diastolic blood pressure recovery was mediated by exposure to family conflict (95% confidence interval = - 0.1400 to - 0.0012).
conclusionsWe show that late adolescents who grew up in poverty have delayed blood pressure recovery from an acute stressor. Furthermore, childhood exposure to family conflict, a well-documented component of early childhood deprivation, accounted for some of the adverse effects of childhood poverty on stressor recovery among these adolescents. We discuss the importance of considering physiological stress accompanying early experiences of deprivation in thinking about health inequalities.
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