ReviewCurrent epidemiology reports2018
"Under the Skin" and into the Gut: Social Epidemiology of the Microbiome.
Review in Current epidemiology reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.
- Socioeconomic position and the gut microbiota: a narrative synthesis of the association and recommendations.Gut microbes · 2026Pooled it
- Ageing effects of social environments in 'non-social' insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Pooled it
- A randomized clinical trial comparing low-fat with precision nutrition-based diets for weight loss: impact on glycemic variability and HbA1c.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Trial
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- Breastfeeding may lessen socioeconomic disparities in child health through differences in the infant gut microbiome.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
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- Life-course socioeconomic position and the gut microbiome in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).Gut microbes · 2025Article
- Prioritizing precision: guidelines for the better use of population descriptors in human microbiome research.mSystems · 2025Review
- Associations of the Colon Tissue Microbiome and Circulating Bile Acids With Colorectal Adenoma Among Average-Risk Women.Cancer medicine · 2025Article
- 5E Mental Health? Notes on an emerging style of thought.Transcultural psychiatry · 2025Article
- Little Peacemakers: Microbes Can Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution by Their Hosts.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Birth and household exposures are associated with changes to skin bacterial communities during infancy.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2025Article
- Interactions with alloparents are associated with the diversity of infant skin and fecal bacterial communities in Chicago, United States.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Social environment influences microbiota and potentially pathogenic bacterial communities on the skin of developing birds.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- A cross-sectional study observing the association of psychosocial stress and dietary intake with gut microbiota genera and alpha diversity among a young adult cohort of black and white women in Birmingham, Alabama.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Pilot study assessing gut microbial diversity among sexual and gender minority young adults.PloS one · 2024Article
- Reduce, reinforce, and replenish: safeguarding the early-life microbiota to reduce intergenerational health disparities.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- The intersection of social determinants of health, the microbiome, and health outcomes in immigrants: A scoping review.American journal of biological anthropology · 2024Article
- Food desert residence has limited impact on veteran fecal microbiome composition: a U.S. Veteran Microbiome Project study.mSystems · 2023Article
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status is associated with low diversity gut microbiomes and multi-drug resistant microorganism colonization.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2023Article
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Abstract
purpose of the reviewAs the science of the microbiome advances, social epidemiologists can contribute to understanding how the broader social environment shapes the microbiome over the life course. This review summarizes current research and describes potential mechanisms of the social epidemiology of the microbiome. RECENT
findingsMost existing literature linking the social environment and the microbiome comes from animal models, focused on the impact of social interactions and psychosocial stress. Suggestive evidence of the importance of early life exposures, health behaviors, and the built environment also point to the importance of the social environment for the microbiome in humans. SUMMARY: Social epidemiology as a field is well poised to contribute expertise in theory and measurement of the broader social environment to this new area, and to consider both the upstream and downstream mechanisms by which this environment gets "under the skin" and "into the gut." As population-level microbiome data becomes increasingly available, we encourage investigation of the multi-level determinants of the microbiome and how the microbiome may link the social environment and health.
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