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SUBMITTER: Simons RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7751897 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simons Ronald L RL Lei Man-Kit MK Beach Steven R H SRH Simons Leslie Gordon LG Barr Ashley B AB Gibbons Frederick X FX Philibert Robert A RA
Journal of health and social behavior 20190814 3
The present study extends prior research on the links between social adversity and aging by employing more comprehensive measures of adversity and a new gene expression index of aging. Hierarchical regression and 20 years of data from a sample of 381 black Americans were used to test models regarding the impact of social adversity on speed of aging. Consistent with the early life sensitivity model, early adversity continued to predict accelerated aging after controlling for adult adversity. Cont ...[more]