Biological aging in childhood and adolescence following experiences of threat and deprivation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

NL Colich, ML Rosen, ES Williams… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Life history theory argues that exposure to early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, although existing evidence for this varies. We present a meta-analysis and …

Psychological and biological mechanisms linking trauma with cardiovascular disease risk

JA Sumner, S Cleveland, T Chen, JL Gradus - Translational psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide, and
experiences of psychological trauma have been associated with subsequent CVD onset …

Mechanisms linking childhood trauma exposure and psychopathology: A transdiagnostic model of risk and resilience

KA McLaughlin, NL Colich, AM Rodman… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Transdiagnostic processes confer risk for multiple types of psychopathology
and explain the co-occurrence of different disorders. For this reason, transdiagnostic …

Early experiences of threat, but not deprivation, are associated with accelerated biological aging in children and adolescents

JA Sumner, NL Colich, M Uddin, D Armstrong… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Recent conceptual models argue that early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, which may contribute to poor mental and physical health outcomes. Evidence …

Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children

S Marini, KA Davis, TW Soare, Y Zhu… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Exposure to adversity has been linked to accelerated biological aging, which in
turn has been shown to predict numerous physical and mental health problems. In recent …

The fetal programming of telomere biology hypothesis: an update

S Entringer, K de Punder, C Buss… - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Research on mechanisms underlying fetal programming of health and disease risk has
focused primarily on processes that are specific to cell types, organs or phenotypes of …

Translating basic research knowledge on the biological embedding of early-life stress into novel approaches for the developmental programming of lifelong health

CM Heim, S Entringer, C Buss - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2019 - Elsevier
This review integrates scientific knowledge obtained over the past few decades on the
biological mechanisms that contribute to the profound association between exposure to …

Stress, telomeres, and psychopathology: toward a deeper understanding of a triad of early aging

ES Epel, AA Prather - Annual review of clinical psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Telomeres play an important part in aging and show relationships to lifetime adversity,
particularly childhood adversity. Meta-analyses demonstrate reliable associations between …

Childhood obesity within the lens of racism

NT Browne, EA Hodges, L Small, JA Snethen… - Pediatric …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite decades of research and a multitude of prevention and treatment efforts, childhood
obesity in the United States continues to affect nearly 1 in 5 (19.3%) children, with …

Stress and immunosenescence: The role of telomerase

K de Punder, C Heim, PD Wadhwa… - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2019 - Elsevier
Chronic stress is associated with the accelerated aging of the immune system and
represents a potent risk factor for the development and progression of a wide range of …