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Do black/white differences in telomere length depend on socioeconomic status?
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- What's the Weight? Estimating Controlled Outcome Differences in Complex Surveys for Health Disparities Research.Statistics in medicine · 2025Article
- Examining the Relationships Between Blood Cadmium, DNA Methylation Biomarker, Telomere Length, and Their Associations with Mortality in U.S. Adults.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Maternal childhood adversity accelerates epigenetic aging of children.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Leukocyte telomere length change in children with obesity in the context of an isocaloric fructose restriction intervention.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Article
- Racial and ethnic differences in epigenetic aging: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.PloS one · 2025Article
- Telomere biology and its maintenance in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Exploring links to cognition.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- QUANTILE REGRESSION DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS OF DISPARITY RESEARCH USING COMPLEX SURVEY DATA: APPLICATION TO DISPARITIES IN BMI AND TELOMERE LENGTH BETWEEN U.S. MINORITY AND WHITE POPULATION GROUPS.The annals of applied statistics · 2024Article
- Telomere Length in a South African Population Co-Infected with HIV and Helminths.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
- Biological Basis of Breast Cancer-Related Disparities in Precision Oncology Era.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- The impact of telomere length on prostate cancer aggressiveness, genomic instability and health disparities.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Does Adulthood Socioeconomic Status Predict Subsequent Telomere Length in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women?Journal of biomedical and life sciences · 2024Article
- Overamped: Stimulant Use and HIV Pathogenesis.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2023Review
- Early life adversity predicts an accelerated cellular aging phenotype through early timing of puberty.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Sub-optimal maternal gestational gain is associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length at birth in a predominantly Latinx cohort of newborns.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2023Article
- Neighborhood deprivation, racial segregation and associations with cancer risk and outcomes across the cancer-control continuum.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
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Abstract
Social and economic disadvantage are hypothesized to increase the risk of disease and death via accelerated biological aging. Given that US blacks are socially and economically disadvantaged relative to whites, health disparities scholars expected that blacks would have shorter telomere length-a biomarker of cell aging-than whites. Yet the majority of studies have found that blacks have longer telomere length than whites. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n = 3,761; 28.3% non-Hispanic black, 71.7% non-Hispanic white), we found that leukocyte telomere length was 4.00% (95% CI: 1.12%, 6.87%) longer among blacks compared to whites in the full sample, but differences were greatest among those with lower SES (5.66%; 95% CI: 0.10%, 10.32%), intermediate among those with middle SES (4.14%; 95% CI: 0.05%, 8.24%), and smallest among those with higher SES (2.33%; 95% CI: -3.02%, 7.67%). These results challenge purely genetic explanations for race differences in telomere length and point to a potential social-environmental cause of longer telomere length in US blacks.
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