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The intersectional effect of poverty, home ownership, and racial/ethnic composition on mean childhood blood lead levels in Milwaukee County neighborhoods by Lynch, Emily E, Meier, Helen C. S

“…Environmental conditions that contribute to childhood lead exposure are spatially patterned. Socioeconomic and racial inequities in childhood lead exposure…”
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Validation of Multiplex Serology detecting human herpesviruses 1-5 by Brenner, Nicole, Mentzer, Alexander J, Butt, Julia, Michel, Angelika, Prager, Kristina, Brozy, Johannes, Weißbrich, Benedikt, Aiello, Allison E, Meier, Helen C S, Breuer, Judy, Almond, Rachael, Allen, Naomi, Pawlita, Michael, Waterboer, Tim

“…Human herpesviruses (HHV) cause a variety of clinically relevant conditions upon primary infection of typically young and immunocompetent hosts. Both primary…”
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The legacy of structural racism: Associations between historic redlining, current mortgage lending, and health by Lynch, Emily E., Malcoe, Lorraine Halinka, Laurent, Sarah E., Richardson, Jason, Mitchell, Bruce C., Meier, Helen C.S.

“…Structural racism, which is embedded in past and present operations of the U.S. housing market, is a fundamental cause of racial health inequities. We…”
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Telomeres in toxicology: Occupational health by Shoeb, Mohammad, Meier, Helen C.S., Antonini, James M.

“…The ends of chromosomes shorten at each round of cell division, and this process is thought to be affected by occupational exposures. Occupational hazards may…”
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Cognition and Wealth Changes in Mid-to-later Life: A Latent Class Trajectories Approach Using the Health and Retirement Study by Westrick, Ashly C., Esiaka, Darlingtina K., Meier, Helen C.S., Rooks, Ronica N., Manning, Mark, Tarraf, Wassim

“…Objectives To assess how cognitive trajectories from mid-to-later life relate to wealth change, overall and by mid-life income. Methods: Data were from…”
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Cellular response to chronic psychosocial stress: Ten-year longitudinal changes in telomere length in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis by Meier, Helen C.S., Hussein, Mustafa, Needham, Belinda, Barber, Sharrelle, Lin, Jue, Seeman, Teresa, Diez Roux, Ana

“…•Examined if chronic psychosocial stress was longitudinally associated with telomere length changes over time in a diverse, middle-aged cohort .•Within-person…”
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Systemic inflammation and biological aging in the Health and Retirement Study by Meier, Helen C. S., Mitchell, Colter, Karadimas, Thomas, Faul, Jessica D.

“…Chronic, low-level systemic inflammation associated with aging, or inflammaging, is a risk factor for several chronic diseases and mortality. Using data from…”
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Objective and subjective childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and incident depression in adulthood: a longitudinal analysis in the Sister Study by Simanek, Amanda M., Meier, Helen C. S., D’Aloisio, Aimee A., Sandler, Dale P.

“…Understanding of the role of objective versus subjective childhood socioeconomic disadvantage (SD) in depression onset in adulthood among women, independent of…”
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Evaluation of T-cell aging-related immune phenotypes in the context of biological aging and multimorbidity in the Health and Retirement Study by Ramasubramanian, Ramya, Meier, Helen C S, Vivek, Sithara, Klopack, Eric, Crimmins, Eileen M, Faul, Jessica, Nikolich-Žugich, Janko, Thyagarajan, Bharat

“…Cellular changes in adaptive immune system accompany the process of aging and contribute to an aging-related immune phenotype (ARIP) characterized by decrease…”
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Grip strength is inversely associated with DNA methylation age acceleration by Peterson, Mark D., Collins, Stacey, Meier, Helen C.S., Brahmsteadt, Alexander, Faul, Jessica D.

“…Background There is a large body of evidence linking muscular weakness, as determined by low grip strength, to a host of negative ageing‐related health…”
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Association Between Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Infection and Offspring Mood Disorders: A Review of the Literature by Simanek, Amanda M., PhD, MPH, Meier, Helen C.S., PhD, MPH

“…The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic review of studies that have examined the association between prenatal exposure to maternal infection and…”
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Antinuclear antibodies and mortality in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2004) by Dinse, Gregg E, Parks, Christine G, Weinberg, Clarice R, Meier, Helen C S, Co, Caroll A, Chan, Edward K L, Miller, Frederick W

“…Recent studies suggest antinuclear antibodies (ANA) may be related to mortality risk, but evidence is sparse and inconclusive. Thus, we investigated ANA…”
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Home Mortgage Lending and Neighborhood Mental Health: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of 18 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas by Chen, Liang, Mitchell, Bruce C, Richardson, Jason, Meier, Helen C S

“…This study investigates the relationship between home mortgages and neighborhood mental health across the 18 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in…”
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Immune cells are associated with mortality: the Health and Retirement Study by Seshadri, Gokul, Vivek, Sithara, Prizment, Anna, Crimmins, Eileen M, Klopack, Eric T, Faul, Jessica, Guan, Weihua, Meier, Helen C S, Thyagarajan, Bharat

“…Age-related immunosenescence is characterized by changes in immune cell subsets and is associated with mortality. However, since immunosenescence is associated…”
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Early life trauma and adult leucocyte telomere length by Woo, Jennifer M.P., Parks, Christine G., Hyde, Emily E., Auer, Paul L., Simanek, Amanda M., Konkel, Rebecca H., Taylor, Jack, Sandler, Dale P., Meier, Helen C.S.

“…Telomere length, a biomarker of cell division and cellular aging, has been associated with multiple chronic disease endpoints. Experienced trauma over the life…”
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Association between prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage, adverse birth outcomes, and inflammatory response at birth by Simanek, Amanda M., Xiong, Meng, Woo, Jennifer M.P., Zheng, Cheng, Zhang, Yuan S., Meier, Helen C.S., Aiello, Allison E.

“…Prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with inflammation in mid- to late-life, yet whether a pro-inflammatory phenotype is present at birth and the…”
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Historic redlining in Columbus, Ohio associated with stroke prevalence by Wing, Jeffrey J., Lynch, Emily E., Laurent, Sarah E., Mitchell, Bruce, Richardson, Jason, Meier, Helen C.S.

“…Racial disparities exist in stroke and stroke outcomes. In an ecologic study, using the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) “redlining” scores, as indicator…”
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Latent Class Models of Early-life Trauma and Incident Breast Cancer by Woo, Jennifer M. P., Simanek, Amanda, O’Brien, Katie M., Parks, Christine, Gaston, Symielle, Auer, Paul L., Konkel, Rebecca Headley, Jackson, Chandra L., Meier, Helen C. S., Sandler, Dale P.

“…Psychosocial trauma has been hypothesized to influence breast cancer risk, but little is known about how co-occurring traumas-particularly during early…”
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Prenatal Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Epigenetic Alterations at Birth Among Children Born to White British and Pakistani Mothers in the Born in Bradford Study by Simanek, Amanda M., Manansala, Regina, Woo, Jennifer M.P., Meier, Helen C. S., Needham, Belinda L., Auer, Paul L.

“…Prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage (SD) has been linked to DNA methylation (DNAm) in adulthood, but whether such epigenetic alterations are present at birth…”
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Pathogen burden and leukocyte telomere length in the United States by Noppert, Grace A, Feinstein, Lydia, Dowd, Jennifer B, Stebbins, Rebecca C, Zang, Emma, Needham, Belinda L, Meier, Helen C S, Simanek, Amanda, Aiello, Allison E

“…Prior studies in humans have suggested that telomere shortening may be accelerated by infection, but research on multiple pathogens and use of large…”
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