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Early life stress, air pollution, inflammation, and disease: An integrative review and immunologic model of social-environmental adversity and lifespan health
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Socially disadvantaged individuals are at greater risk for simultaneously being exposed to adverse social and environmental conditions. Although the mechanisms underlying joint effects remain unclear, one hypothesis is that toxic social and environmental exposures have synergistic effects on inflammatory processes that underlie the development of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and certain types of cancer. In the present review, we examine how exposure to two risk factors that commonly occur with social disadvantage-early life stress and air pollution-affect health. Specifically, we identify neuroimmunologic pathways that could link early life stress, inflammation, air pollution, and poor health, and use this information to propose an integrated, multi-level model that describes how these factors may interact and cause health disparity across individuals based on social disadvantage. This model highlights the importance of interdisciplinary research considering multiple exposures across domains and the potential for synergistic, cross-domain effects on health, and may help identify factors that could potentially be targeted to reduce disease risk and improve lifespan health.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Olvera Alvarez, H. A., Kubzansky, L. D., Campen, M. J., & Slavich, G. M.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 92
- Pages
- 226-242
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6082389
- OpenAlex
- W2805640433
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 226
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 1.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Branco Weiss Fellowship â Society in Science
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01 ES014639, 3R01ES014639-09S1)
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (23958)
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (K08 MH103443)
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Keywords
- early life stress, air pollution, inflammation, social deprivation, health disparities, neuroimmunology, chronic disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, depression, cancer, lifespan health, multi-level model
- MeSH terms
- Air Pollution, Humans, Inflammation, Longevity, Social Environment, Stress, Psychological, Models, Immunological
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