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Unfavorable socioeconomic conditions in early life presage expression of proinflammatory phenotype in adolescence.
Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jun 2007
Miller Gregory, Chen Edith
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OBJECTIVE: Unfavorable socioeconomic status (SES) circumstances early in life are associated with heightened vulnerability to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. However, little is known about mechanisms underlying this phenomenon. METHODS: This study examined whether early-life SES predicts future activity of two genes involved in regulating inflammation. An ethnically diverse cohort of 136...
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