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Gassen J, Mengelkoch S, Slavich GM. Human immune and metabolic biomarker levels, and stress-biomarker associations, differ by season: Implications for biomedical health research. Brain Behav Immun Health 2024; 38:100793. [PMID: 38813082 PMCID: PMC11133497 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbih.2024.100793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
Abstract
Although seasonal changes in physiology are well documented, little is known about how human immune and metabolic markers vary across seasons, and no studies have examined how stress → health biomarker associations differ across the year. To investigate these issues, we analyzed data from 2118 participants of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study to determine whether there were differences in (a) levels of 19 immune and metabolic markers, and (b) the association between perceived stress and each biomarker across the year. Results of component-wide boosted generalized additive models revealed seasonal patterning for most biomarkers, with immune proteins generally peaking when days were shorter. Moreover, whereas levels of hemoglobin A1C rose from late fall to spring, triglycerides were elevated in the summer and fall, and high-density lipoprotein decreased steadily from January to December. Urinary cortisol and cortisone exhibited opposite patterns, peaking at the beginning and end of the year, respectively. Most critically, we found that the effects of perceived stress on 18 of the 19 health biomarkers assessed varied by month of measurement. In some cases, these differences involved the magnitude of the stress → biomarker association but, in other cases, it was the direction of the effect that changed. Studies that do not account for month of biomarker assessment may thus yield misleading or unreproducible results.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jeffrey Gassen
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Miller GE, Carroll AL, Armstrong CC, Craske MG, Zinbarg RE, Bookheimer SY, Ka-Yi Chat I, Vinograd M, Young KS, Nusslock R. Major stress in early childhood strengthens the association between peripheral inflammatory activity and corticostriatal responsivity to reward. Brain Behav Immun 2024; 117:215-223. [PMID: 38244947 PMCID: PMC10932835 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 01/09/2024] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 01/22/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Severe, chronic stress during childhood accentuates vulnerability to mental and physical health problems across the lifespan. To explain this phenomenon, the neuroimmune network hypothesis proposes that childhood stressors amplify signaling between peripheral inflammatory cells and developing brain circuits that support processing of rewards and threats. Here, we conducted a preliminary test of the basic premises of this hypothesis. METHODS 180 adolescents (mean age = 19.1 years; 68.9 % female) with diverse racial and ethnic identities (56.1 % White; 28.3 % Hispanic; 26.1 % Asian) participated. The Childhood Trauma Interview was administered to quantify early adversity. Five inflammatory biomarkers were assayed in antecubital blood - C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor-a, and interleukins-6, -8, and -10 - and were averaged to form a composite score. Participants also completed a functional MRI task to measure corticostriatal responsivity to the anticipation and acquisition of monetary rewards. RESULTS Stress exposure and corticostriatal responsivity interacted statistically to predict the inflammation composite. Among participants who experienced major stressors in the first decade of life, higher inflammatory activity covaried with lower corticostriatal responsivity during acquisition of monetary rewards. This relationship was specific to participants who experienced major stress in early childhood, implying a sensitive period for exposure, and were evident in both the orbitofrontal cortex and the ventral striatum, suggesting the broad involvement of corticostriatal regions. The findings were independent of participants' age, sex, racial and ethnic identity, family income, and depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Collectively, the results are consistent with hypotheses suggesting that major stress in childhood alters brain-immune signaling.
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- Gregory E Miller
- Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, United States; Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, United States.
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- Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, United States
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- Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, United States; The Family Institute at Northwestern University, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Temple University, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, United States; Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, United States
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Nayman S, Jones EJ, Smyth JM, Schreier HMC. Associations of childhood and adult adversity with daily experiences in adulthood. Stress Health 2022; 38:318-329. [PMID: 34382320 DOI: 10.1002/smi.3090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Data from 213 adults were analysed to test the stress accumulation and stress sensitization models as they relate to daily mood, health behaviours and social interactions. Adults reported on childhood adversity, past year adversity, and daily experiences on 14 evenings. Results largely supported the stress accumulation and not stress sensitization model such that childhood and past year adversity had independent but not synergistic effects on daily experiences. Both adversity measures were independently associated with greater daily negative affect and negative affect variability. Childhood adversity independently associated with greater mean variability in daily positive affect. Past year adversity was associated with more daily social activities, greater odds of reporting interpersonal tension at least once, and daily tension. Although childhood adversity was associated with greater odds of sharing about one's day at least once, past year adversity was associated with more daily sharing and childhood adversity with less. Both measures were unrelated to daily health behaviours except childhood adversity was associated with lower odds of being a current drinker. The only support for the stress sensitization model was number of daily cigarettes among smokers. Our findings suggest childhood and recent adversity independently relate to adults' daily experiences and should be considered jointly.
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- Sibel Nayman
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Research Group Longitudinal and Intervention Research, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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Corallo KL, Lyle SM. Recalled Neighborhood Environments, Parental Control, and Cytokine-Mediated Response to Viral Challenge. Psychosom Med 2021; 83:843-851. [PMID: 34334728 PMCID: PMC8490293 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000000991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Neighborhood risk in childhood is associated with poor health across the life span. However, many people who are reared in risky neighborhoods remain healthy in adulthood. In the context of high-risk neighborhoods, parenting practices that are controlling might promote better physical health outcomes later in life. The current study used a viral challenge paradigm to examine whether parental control throughout childhood moderated the association between recalled neighborhood risk and cytokine-mediated cold susceptibility. METHODS A sample of 209 healthy adults completed questionnaires to assess recalled neighborhood risk and parental control over the first 15 years of life, were exposed to a common cold virus, and were quarantined for 6 days. Researchers assessed nasal proinflammatory cytokine production and objective markers of illness. Participants were diagnosed with a clinical cold if they met the infection and objective illness criteria. RESULTS A significant Neighborhood Risk by Parental Control interaction emerged to predict proinflammatory cytokine production. Furthermore, parental control moderated the cytokine-mediated association between neighborhood risk and cold diagnosis (index = -0.073, 95% confidence interval [CI] = -0.170 to -0.016), likelihood of infection (index = -0.071, 95% CI = -0.172 to -0.015), and meeting the objective symptom criteria (index = -0.074, 95% CI = -0.195 to -0.005). Specifically, there was a negative association between neighborhood risk and objective cold diagnosis and infection status at higher levels of parental control, but a nonsignificant association at lower levels of parental control. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that the degree to which recalled neighborhood risk is related to adult health varies as a function of parental control throughout childhood.
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Jabaley CS, Groff RF, O'Reilly-Shah VN. Asthma Information Seeking via Wikipedia between 2015 and 2018: Implications for Awareness Promotion. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2020; 199:531-533. [PMID: 30521354 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201809-1649le] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Craig S Jabaley
- 1 Emory University Atlanta, Georgia.,2 Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center Decatur, Georgia and
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- 1 Emory University Atlanta, Georgia.,2 Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center Decatur, Georgia and
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- 1 Emory University Atlanta, Georgia.,3 Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia
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Stratakis CA, Rivkees SA. Preventing disease in the twenty-first century: "Life is short, the Art long, opportunity fleeting…". Pediatr Res 2020; 87:181-182. [PMID: 31683273 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-019-0655-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Constantine A Stratakis
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. .,Section on Endocrinology and Genetics (SEGEN), NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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Review of Tools for Measuring Exposure to Adversity in Children and Adolescents. J Pediatr Health Care 2018; 32:564-583. [PMID: 30369409 DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2018.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Exposure to childhood adversity can result in negative behavioral and physical health outcomes due to potential long-term embedding into regulatory biological processes. Screening for exposure to adversity is a critical first step in identifying children at risk for developing a toxic stress response. We searched PubMed, PsycArticles, and CINAHL for studies published between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2016, as well as other sources, to identify potential tools for measuring cumulative adversity in children and adolescents. We identified 32 tools and examined them for adversity categories, target population, administration time, administration qualifications and method, and reliability and validity. We also created a list of recommended tools that would be feasible for use by pediatric practitioners in most types of practice. This review provides a starting point for mobilizing screening in pediatric settings, highlighting the challenges with existing tools, and potential issues in the development and evaluation of future tools.
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Ferrara P, Franceschini G, Sbordone A, Sandullo F, Saitta D, Ruggiero A. Social programs on providing care for children who underwent parental death and parental separation. MINERVA PSICHIATRICA 2018; 59. [DOI: 10.23736/s0391-1772.18.01978-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Shibata M, Iwane T, Higuchi R, Suwa K, Nakajima K. Potential common factors associated with predisposition to common cold in middle-aged and elderly Japanese: A community-based cross-sectional study. Medicine (Baltimore) 2018; 97:e10729. [PMID: 29768343 PMCID: PMC5976333 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000010729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2017] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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People worldwide frequently catch a common cold, which occasionally develops into secondary severe conditions such as pneumonia. However, it is unclear whether predisposition to the common cold is associated with the individual's characteristics including age, body weight, lifestyles, diets, and intestinal functions, besides exposure to a responsible pathogen. We addressed this issue epidemiologically considering many relevant clinical factors.We reviewed data from a cross-sectional study consisting of 39,524 apparently healthy Japanese aged 40 to 79 years (26,975 men and 12,549 women) who underwent a checkup in 2007. Self-reported predisposition to common cold (SPCC) and relevant clinical conditions and parameters were considered.We observed no significant difference in most clinical parameters including age, body mass index (BMI), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and prevalence of men and current smokers between subjects with and without SPCC. In univariate analysis, circulating white blood cell (WBC) count and serum alanine-aminotransferase (ALT) were significantly higher in subjects with SPCC than in those without, whereas serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and duration of sleep were lower. In logistic regression analysis after full adjustment for relevant confounding factors, BMI categories except BMI of ≥27.0 kg/m were significantly associated with SPCC compared with BMI of 23.0 to 24.9 kg/m. Short duration of sleep (≤5 hours), occasional alcohol drinking, and no-exercise were significantly associated with SPCC compared with 7 hours sleep duration, no-drinking alcohol, and low frequent exercise (twice per month), respectively. All gastrointestinal disorders (gastric complaints, constipation, and diarrhea) were independently associated with SPCC. Imbalanced diet and taking a snack were also associated with SPCC in a degree dependent manner. Furthermore, WBC count, serum ALT, and HDL-C (as continuous variables) were associated with SPCC (HDL-C was inversely), whereas no significant association was observed between SPCC and age, smoking, HbA1c, and pharmacotherapy for diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.Our results demonstrated that multifactorial conditions and parameters might be simultaneously associated with the predisposition to common cold. Prospective studies including detailed common cold questionnaire and measurements are needed to confirm currently suspected causative and protective factors.
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- Michi Shibata
- School of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health and Social Services, Kanagawa University of Human Services
- Department of Nutrition, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Hospital, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
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- School of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health and Social Services, Kanagawa University of Human Services
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- School of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health and Social Services, Kanagawa University of Human Services
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- Saitama Health Promotion Corporation, Yoshimimachi, Hikigun
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- School of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health and Social Services, Kanagawa University of Human Services
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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Affiliation(s)
- Neil P. Walsh
- College of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
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