Importance Emerging research suggests that factors associated with the built environment, including artificial light, air pollution, and noise, may adversely affect children's mental …
Background Childhood socioeconomic status is linked to adult cardiovascular disease and disease risk. One proposed pathway involves inflammation due to exposure to a stress …
Objective: Family environments have an effect on physical health during adolescence, and a possible underlying mechanism is inflammation. However, little is known about the …
TW McDade, M Hoke, JB Borja, LS Adair… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Chronic inflammation is a potentially important pathway through which psychosocial stressors increase risk for cardiovascular disease. However, prior research on stress and …
Background Social isolation is known to be associated with poorer health amongst adults, including coronary heart disease. It is hypothesized that this association may be mediated …
SA Matthews, TC Yang - Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Health researchers have explored how different aspects of neighborhood characteristics contribute to health and well-being, but current understanding of built …
Despite medical advances, childhood health and well-being have not been broadly achieved due to rising chronic diseases and conditions related to child poverty. Family and …
Y Kim, C Cubbin - Health education & behavior, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective. Home food environments are important contexts for children and their food intake. It is unknown whether neighborhood economic context plays a role in explaining the …
It is proposed that environmental exposures in early life influence immune programming. Specifically, socioeconomic disadvantage is thought to program an immune phenotype that …