ArticleHealth & place2020
Association between telomere length and neighborhood characteristics by race and region in US midlife and older adults.
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- The Association between Telomere Length and Head and Neck Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Leukocyte telomere length in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders: a meta-analysis of case-control studies.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Neighborhood built environment, psychosocial stressors, and telomere length of birth parents and their newborns from San Francisco, California.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Are There Regional Differences in Mental Health among Black Americans? An Exploration of Explanatory Mechanisms.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Social Vulnerability and Biological Aging in New York City: An Electronic Health Records-Based Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- The role of optimism, connectedness, and neighborhood collective efficacy as moderators of harsh parenting on telomere length.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Institutional, neighborhood, and life stressors on loneliness among older adults.BMC public health · 2025Article
- An exploration of neighborhood characteristics, psychosocial resilience resources, and cognitive functioning among midlife and older black adults.Ethnicity & health · 2024Article
- Robust evidence supports a causal link between higher birthweight and longer telomere length: a mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in genetics · 2024Article
- 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
- Earth Dreams: Reimagining ARPA for Health of People, Places and Planet.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Land use mix and leukocyte telomere length in Mexican Americans.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Discrimination, Neighborhood Social Cohesion, and Telomere Length: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2021Article
- Adopting a "Compound" Exposome Approach in Environmental Aging Biomarker Research: A Call to Action for Advancing Racial Health Equity.Environmental health perspectives · 2021Article
- Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and Cognitive Functioning among Diverse Older Adults: An Intersectional Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Disadvantaged neighborhoods are correlated with worse health outcomes, particularly among US Blacks. However, less is known about the link between neighborhood characteristics and biomarkers of cellular age, such as telomere length (TL), which may be implicated in racial health inequities. Moreover, this relationship may vary across US region given patterns of racial segregation across the US. Therefore, this study analyzed 2008 Health and Retirement Study data on 3,869 US-born white and Black adults >50 years old to examine race differences in the relationship between salivary TL and (1) neighborhood safety, cleanliness, and social cohesion and (2) interactions between neighborhood characteristics and US region. Neighborhood characteristics were not associated with TL in whites. However, significant associations were found among Blacks with variation by region. Blacks living in less clean neighborhoods in the Northeast (b = -0.03, SE = 0.01, p < 0.05), Midwest (b = -0.04, SE = 0.01, p < 0.01), and South (b = -0.05, SE = 0.01, p < 0.01) as well as those reporting less neighborhood safety and social cohesion in the Midwest (b = -0.03, SE = 0.02, p < 0.05 and b = -0.03, SE = 0.01, p < 0.05) and South (b = -0.03, SE = 0.01, p < 0.05 for both characteristics) had shorter TL than Blacks in the West. Therefore, exposure to neighborhood level historical discrimination and neglect may be detrimental to TL in Blacks. Future research should further examine how neighborhoods contribute to aging disparities.
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