This Special Communication article introduces the studies included in this special issue as part of the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Social Epigenomics Program. https://ja.ma/3Wp3ApB
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Accelerated aging in young adults is associated with education, income, obesity, exercise, and tobacco use. These findings suggest early intervention on social and behavioral inequalities may promote healthy aging. https://ja.ma/4c6qVlE
Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors and Epigenetic Aging in US Young Adults
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Higher diet quality and higher consumption of antioxidants or anti-inflammatory nutrients were associated with younger epigenetic age, whereas higher consumption of added sugar was associated with older epigenetic age. https://ja.ma/4fq7sPI
Essential Nutrients, Added Sugar Intake, and Epigenetic Age in Black and White Women
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Low neighborhood socioeconomic status was associated with increased biological aging; individual-level factors such as educational level and physical activity modify this association, which varied by race and ethnicity, these findings suggest. https://ja.ma/3AbfLPf
Socioeconomic Status, Lifestyle, and DNA Methylation Age
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Epigenetic age acceleration was higher in minoritized racial groups and associated with future PTSD diagnosis and severity, suggesting that epigenetic age acceleration influences sensitivity to future traumas. https://ja.ma/4c6bUAy
Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Disparities in Posttraumatic Stress in Women
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Epigenetic aging (DNAmAA) may vary with the type and timing of child maltreatment exposure, and appear to be associated with more proximate biological embedding of stress, these findings suggest. https://ja.ma/4fp9aBa
Childhood Maltreatment and Longitudinal Epigenetic Aging
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Losing a loved one may accelerate biological aging even before midlife; frequency of losses may compound this, potentially leading to earlier chronic diseases and mortality, this study’s findings suggest. https://ja.ma/4c2VdGe
Familial Loss of a Loved One and Biological Aging
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Obesity is associated with an early onset of breast cancer and a higher risk of diagnosis with luminal A or TNBC subtypes, especially in Black women. https://ja.ma/3A5uRpF
Obesity and Early-Onset Breast Cancer in Black and White Women
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In this longitudinal study of midlife health and aging, childhood social hallmarks of aging were associated with midlife insulin resistance and epigenetic age. https://ja.ma/4fn8kEO
Psychosocial Disadvantage During Childhood and Midlife Health
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