Neighborhood disorder and telomeres: Connecting children's exposure to community level stress and cellular response

Theall, Katherine P.; Brett, Zoë H.; Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.; Dunn, Erin C.; Drury, Stacy S.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.030

Cited by 175Telomeres, Telomerase, and SenescenceHealth disparities and outcomesChild Abuse and Trauma

Neighborhood disorder and telomeres: Connecting children's exposure to community level stress and cellular response

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Theall, Katherine P., Brett, Zoë H., Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A., Dunn, Erin C., Drury, Stacy S.·2013·Social Science & Medicine

DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.030PMC PMC3615150

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Our objective was to explore the utility of salivary telomere length (sTL) as an early indicator of neighborhood-level social environmental risk during child development. We therefore tested the hypothesis that sTL would be associated with markers of social stress exposure in children. Children age 4-14 from 87 neighborhoods were recruited through five urban schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Data were collected at the level of the child, family/household, and neighborhood. DNA was obtained from saliva using commercially available kits and sTL was determined for 104 children using quantitative PCR. Analysis was performed on 99 children who had complete data including sTL, social environmental stress, and additional covariates. The mean sTL value was 7.4 T/S (telomere signal/single-copy signal) ratio units (±2.4, range = 2.5-18.0), and 4.7% of the variance in sTL was attributed to differences across neighborhoods. Children living in neighborhoods characterized by high disorder had an sTL value 3.2 units lower than children not living in high disordered environments (p < 0.05) and their odds of having low relative sTL (defined as <1 standard deviation below standardized Z-score mean) values was 3.43 times that of children not living in high disorder environments (adjusted OR = 3.43, 95% CI = 1.22, 9.62). Our findings are consistent with previous studies in adults demonstrating a strong link between psychosocial stress and sTL obtained from peripheral blood, consistent with previous studies in youth demonstrating an association between early life stress and sTL obtained from buccal cell DNA and offer increased support for the hypothesis that sTL represents a non-invasive biological indicator of psychosocial stress exposure (i.e., neighborhood disorder) able to reflect differences in stress exposure levels even in young children.

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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: Theall, K. P., Brett, Z. H., Shirtcliff, E. A., Dunn, E. C., & Drury, S. S.
Affiliations: Tulane University (US)
LSU New Orleans (US)
Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
Corresponding author: Theall, Katherine P.
ORCID: Theall, Katherine P.
Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.
Dunn, Erin C.
Drury, Stacy S.
Venue: Social Science & Medicine
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2013-05
Volume: 85
Pages: 50-58
ISSN: 0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.030
PMC: PMC3615150
OpenAlex: W2156697129
Cited by: 175
References: 95
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 2
FWCI: 11.71
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1K01SH000002, K01SH000002)
National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH094688, K01MH077687, R01MH091363)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01ES020447)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Keywords: neighborhood disorder, social stress, psychosocial stress, early life stress, children, neighborhood effects, urban neighborhoods, buccal DNA
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Residence Characteristics, Risk Factors, Saliva, Social Environment, Stress, Psychological, Urban Population, Telomere, New Orleans

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