(Press-News.org) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287112
Article Title: Contributions of neighborhood social environment and air pollution exposure to Black-White disparities in epigenetic aging
Author Countries: USA
Funding: This work was supported by National Institute on Aging: R01-AG066152 (CM), R01- AG070885 (RB), P30-AG072979 (CM). Additional support includes Pennsylvania Department of Health (2019NF4100087335; CM), and Penn Institute on Aging (CM). National Institute on Aging: https://www.nia.nih.gov Pennsylvania Department of Health: https://www.health.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx Penn Institute on Aging: https://www.med.upenn.edu/aging/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Black Americans may face relatively accelerated biological aging because they tend to experience lower socioeconomic status, more neighborhood deprivation and higher air pollution than White Americans
2023-07-05
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