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Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length in the nationally representative US Health and Retirement Study

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Puterman, Eli, Gemmill, Alison, Karasek, Deborah, Weir, David, Adler, Nancy E., Prather, Aric A., Epel, Elissa S.·2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Stress over the lifespan is thought to promote accelerated aging and early disease. Telomere length is a marker of cell aging that appears to be one mediator of this relationship. Telomere length is associated with early adversity and with chronic stressors in adulthood in many studies. Although cumulative lifespan adversity should have bigger impacts than single events, it is also possible that adversity in childhood has larger effects on later life health than adult stressors, as suggested by models of biological embedding in early life. No studies have examined the individual vs. cumulative effects of childhood and adulthood adversities on adult telomere length. Here, we examined the relationship between cumulative childhood and adulthood adversity, adding up a range of severe financial, traumatic, and social exposures, as well as comparing them to each other, in relation to salivary telomere length. We examined 4,598 men and women from the US Health and Retirement Study. Single adversities tended to have nonsignificant relations with telomere length. In adjusted models, lifetime cumulative adversity predicted 6% greater odds of shorter telomere length. This result was mainly due to childhood adversity. In adjusted models for cumulative childhood adversity, the occurrence of each additional childhood event predicted 11% increased odds of having short telomeres. This result appeared mainly because of social/traumatic exposures rather than financial exposures. This study suggests that the shadow of childhood adversity may reach far into later adulthood in part through cellular aging.

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Authors: Puterman, E., Gemmill, A., Karasek, D., Weir, D., Adler, N. E., Prather, A. A., & Epel, E. S.
Affiliations: University of British Columbia (CA)
University of California, Berkeley (US)
University of Michigan (US)
University of California, San Francisco (US)
ORCID: Puterman, Eli
Gemmill, Alison
Karasek, Deborah
Weir, David
Adler, Nancy E.
Prather, Aric A.
Epel, Elissa S.
Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 2016-10-03
Volume: 113
Issue: 42
Pages: E6335-E6342
ISSN: 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525602113
PMC: PMC5081642
OpenAlex: W2529798465
Cited by: 165
References: 77
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 13
FWCI: 19.17
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: www.pnas.org/site/misc/userlicense.xhtml (vor)
Locations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders: HHS | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R00 HL 109247, K08 HL 112961)
Canada Research Chairs (950-230617)
HHS | NIH | National Institute on Aging (T32-AG000246)
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Keywords: telomere length, cumulative adversity, childhood adversity, biological embedding, cellular aging, accelerated aging, salivary biomarkers, financial hardship, traumatic events, social adversity
MeSH terms: Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Longevity, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Stress, Psychological, United States, Multivariate Analysis, Odds Ratio, Telomere, Cellular Senescence, Telomere Shortening, Public Health Surveillance

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