Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections, resulting in a range of clinical …

PURPOSE Neighborhoods represent complex environments with unique social, cultural,
physical, and economic attributes that have major impacts on disparities in health, disease …

Slow paced breathing via heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback stimulates vagus-nerve
pathways that counter noradrenergic stress and arousal pathways that can influence …

Importance Epigenetic clocks represent molecular evidence of disease risk and aging
processes and have been used to identify how social and lifestyle characteristics are …

The 2010 special issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled “Fifty Years of
Medical Sociology,” defined the contours of the medical sociological perspective. We use …

Children who experience environmental adversities are at increased risk of both
internalizing and externalizing disorders. Epigenetic mechanisms may regulate the …

Background Discrimination is associated with negative health outcomes as mediated in part
by chronic stress, but a full understanding of the biological pathways is lacking. Here we …

Mindfulness meditation training has been shown to be an effective stress reduction strategy,
but less is known about its immunoregulatory impact. In a randomized controlled trial of …

Background The atopic march has been studied mostly in White populations, biasing our
current paradigms. Objective We sought to define the atopic march in Black and White …

Many common chronic diseases of aging are negatively associated with socioeconomic
status (SES). This study examines whether inequalities can already be observed in the …