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Contextual adversity, telomere erosion, pubertal development, and health: Two models of accelerated aging, or one?
30 Sept 2016
Abstract excerpt
Two independent lines of inquiry suggest that growing up under conditions of contextual adversity (e.g., poverty and household chaos) accelerates aging and undermines long-term health. Whereas work addressing the developmental origins of health and disease highlights accelerated-aging effects of contextual adversity on telomere erosion, that informed by an evolutionary analysis of reproductive strategies...
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