TY - JOUR
T1 - Neighborhood features and physiological risk
T2 - An examination of allostatic load
AU - Robinette, Jennifer W.
AU - Charles, Susan T.
AU - Almeida, David M.
AU - Gruenewald, Tara L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant no. DGE-0808392 and an NIH/NIA training grant ( T32-AG000037-37 ) awarded to the first author and NIH/NIA grants awarded to the second author ( R01AG042431 ). The research was further supported by NIH/NIA grants ( P01 AG020166 and R01AG019239 ) and the following grants M01-RR023942 (Georgetown), M01-RR00865 (UCLA) from the General Clinical Research Centers Program and UL1TR000427 (UW) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) , National Institutes of Health .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Poor neighborhoods may represent a situation of chronic stress, and may therefore be associated with health-related correlates of stress. We examined whether lower neighborhood income would relate to higher allostatic load, or physiological well-being, through psychological, affective, and behavioral pathways. Using data from the Biomarker Project of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study and the 2000 Census, we demonstrated that people living in lower income neighborhoods have higher allostatic load net of individual income. Moreover, findings indicate that this relation is partially accounted for by anxious arousal symptoms, fast food consumption, smoking, and exercise habits.
AB - Poor neighborhoods may represent a situation of chronic stress, and may therefore be associated with health-related correlates of stress. We examined whether lower neighborhood income would relate to higher allostatic load, or physiological well-being, through psychological, affective, and behavioral pathways. Using data from the Biomarker Project of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study and the 2000 Census, we demonstrated that people living in lower income neighborhoods have higher allostatic load net of individual income. Moreover, findings indicate that this relation is partially accounted for by anxious arousal symptoms, fast food consumption, smoking, and exercise habits.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.08.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 27583527
AN - SCOPUS:84984619692
SN - 1353-8292
VL - 41
SP - 110
EP - 118
JO - Health and Place
JF - Health and Place
ER -