ArticleThe Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF2018
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Telomere Length: Results from the Fragile Families Study.
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- Associations of maternal neighborhood and trauma-related stressors with mitochondrial DNA copy number and telomere length in maternal and cord blood.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The relationship between greenspace exposure and telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Examining the Cross-sectional Association Between Neighborhood Conditions, Discrimination, and Telomere Length in a Predominantly African American Sample.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Biological Age Mediates the Effects of Perceived Neighborhood Problems on Heart Failure Risk Among Black Persons.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Neighborhood Poverty Prospectively Predicts PTSD Symptoms Six-Months Following Trauma Exposure.Mental health science · 2023Article
- Effects of Prolonged Exposure to Air Pollution and Neighborhood Disadvantage on Self-Rated Health among Adults in the United States: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Observational
- Neighborhood deprivation, racial segregation and associations with cancer risk and outcomes across the cancer-control continuum.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
- By what molecular mechanisms do social determinants impact cardiometabolic risk?Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2023Review
- Poverty, Material Hardship, and Telomere Length Among Latina/o Children.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Family Financial Pressure in Childhood and Telomere Length in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Study.Genes · 2022Article
- Earth Dreams: Reimagining ARPA for Health of People, Places and Planet.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and Mortality in Children with Central Nervous System Tumors.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2021Article
- Neural impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage in traumatically injured adults.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Article
- Land use mix and leukocyte telomere length in Mexican Americans.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Association of Parental Socioeconomic Status and Newborn Telomere Length.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Association between telomere length and neighborhood characteristics by race and region in US midlife and older adults.Health & place · 2020Article
- Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
- Sex differences in the association between salivary telomere length and multimorbidity within the US Health & Retirement Study.Age and ageing · 2019Article
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Abstract
Telomeres are repetitive nucleotide sequences located at the ends of chromosomes that protect genetic material. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to analyze the relationship between exposure to spatially concentrated disadvantage and telomere length for white and black mothers. We find that neighborhood disadvantage is associated with shorter telomere length for mothers of both races. This finding highlights a potential mechanism through which the unique spatially concentrated disadvantage faced by African Americans contributes to racial health disparities. We conclude that equalizing the health and socioeconomic status of black and white Americans will be very difficult without reducing levels of residential segregation in the United States.
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