Social determinants of health (SDoH), which encompass the economic, social,
environmental, and psychosocial factors that influence health, play a significant role in the …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of death and a major
source of health disparities in the Unites States and globally. Efforts to reduce CVD risk and …

Residents of distressed urban areas suffer early aging-related disease and excess mortality.
Using a community-based participatory research approach in a collaboration between social …

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with poor health outcomes even after
accounting for individual-level socioeconomic factors. The chronic stress of unfavorable …

While it is well known from numerous epidemiologic investigations that social determinants
(socioeconomic, environmental, and psychosocial factors exposed to over the life-course) …

Objective: Telomeres are protective sequences of DNA cap** the ends of chromosomes
that shorten over time. Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is posited to reflect the replicative …

The racial/ethnic disparities in cancer incidence and outcome are partially due to the
inequities in neighborhood advantage. Mounting evidences supported a link between …

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with adverse clinical outcomes
among breast cancer patients, but the underlying pathway is still unclear. Limited evidence …

Background Accelerated aging leads to increasing burdens of chronic diseases in late life,
posing a huge challenge to the society. With two well-developed aging measures (ie …

Background An individual's rate of aging directly influences his/her susceptibility to morbidity
and mortality. Thus, quantifying aging and disentangling how various factors coalesce to …