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Family Financial Pressure in Childhood and Telomere Length in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Study.

Keith T S Tung, Rosa S Wong, Hing Wai Tsang, Wilfred H S Wong, Winnie W Y Tso, Jason C Yam, Terry Y S Lum, Godfrey C F Chan, Ian C K Wong, Patrick Ip

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Article in Genes, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Childhood Adversity and Telomere Length.Biological research for nursing · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Keith T S TungDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Rosa S WongDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Hing Wai TsangDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6066-5333
Wilfred H S WongDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Winnie W Y TsoDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jason C YamDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2156-1486
Terry Y S LumDepartment of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Godfrey C F ChanDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Ian C K WongDepartment of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Patrick IpDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6797-6898
University of Hong Kong · HKChinese University of Hong Kong · HKUniversity College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much research on children in high-risk environments has focused on the biological consequences of maltreatment, adversity, and trauma. Whether other early-life stress sources such as family financial hardship are implicated in the cellular mechanism of disease development remains unclear. This study investigated the long-term effect of childhood exposure to family financial pressure on telomere length. It involved two waves of data collection occurring when participants reached Grade 3 (W1) and 7 (W2), respectively. In W1, parents reported family demographics and perceived financial stressors and pressure. In W2, participants provided buccal swab samples for measurement of their telomere length. Data from 92 participants (M

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Financial StressTelomereAdolescentFemaleHumansMaleProspective StudiesStress, PsychologicalTelomere Shorteningearly childhood exposurefamily financial pressuretelomere

Identifiers

PMID35627106
PMCPMC9141478
OpenAlexW4224222206

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