Mechanisms of life-course socioeconomic inequalities in adult systemic inflammation: Findings from two cohort studies

Cristian Carmeli, Johan Steen, Dusan Petrovic, Benoît Lepage, Cyrille Delpierre, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Murielle Bochud, Mika Kivimäki, Paolo Vineis and Silvia Stringhini

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 245, issue C

Abstract: Disadvantaged socioeconomic conditions in childhood heighten systemic inflammatory levels in adulthood; however, life-course mechanisms underlying this association are largely unknown. In the present observational study, we investigated the roles of adulthood socioeconomic and lifestyle factors in mediating this association.

Keywords: Childhood/adulthood socioeconomic positions; Heightened inflammation; Counterfactual mediation; Lifestyle factors; Financial hardship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112685

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