Socioeconomic factors and leukocyte telomere length in a multi-ethnic sample: Findings from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)
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Previous findings have linked lower socioeconomic status (SES) with elevated morbidity and mortality. Leukocyte telomere length (LTL), which also has been associated with age-related disease morbidity and mortality, is a marker of aging at the cellular level, making it a valuable early biomarker of risk and an indicator of biological age. It is hypothesized that SES will be associated with LTL, indicating that SES influences disease risk by accelerating biological aging. In the present sample we test for associations of childhood SES and adult SES (i.e. education, income, home ownership) with LTL, and examine whether these associations vary by racial/ethnic group. Analyses on 963 subjects (18.7% White, 53% Hispanics, and 28.5% African American) from the stress ancillary study of the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis revealed a significant difference in LTL between home owners and renters in Hispanic and White participants (p<.05), but not amongst African Americans (p=.98). There were no linear associations of adult education or family income with LTL, however, there was an inverse association between father's education and LTL (p=.03). These findings suggest that for Whites and Hispanics renting vs. owning a home is associated with an older biological age; however we did not replicate previous findings linking education with LTL.
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Some measures of social standing and social deprivation are associated with telomere length.
“some measures of social standing and social deprivation have also been found to be associated with TL (8,9,17,26).”
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Family socioeconomic status is positively associated with telomere length in children.
“Here we were able to replicate the positive association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and TL (8, 9, 17, 26) for a sample of children.”
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- Authors
- Carroll, J. E., Diez-Roux, A. V., Adler, N. E., & Seeman, T. E.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Carroll, Judith E.
- Venue
- Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-02
- Volume
- 28
- Pages
- 108-114
- ISSN
- 0889-1591 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3544984
- OpenAlex
- W1989816539
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 4.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Brain Behavior and Immunity (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01 HL101161 (A.V.D-R.), N01-HC 95159, N01-HC 95169)
- National Institute of Mental Health, and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, UCLA (J.E.C.) (T32-MH19925)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Keywords
- leukocyte telomere length, socioeconomic status, biological aging, homeownership, housing tenure, childhood socioeconomic status, parental education, income, racial and ethnic differences, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, aging biomarkers, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Black or African American, Educational Status, Family Characteristics, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Income, Leukocytes, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, Biomarkers, White People, Atherosclerosis, Telomere Shortening
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