Journal article
Incarceration exposure and epigenetic aging in neighborhood context
Social science & medicine (1982), Vol.310, 115273
10/2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115273
Abstract
Research has implicated incarceration exposure as a social determinant of health, with recent work suggesting incarceration may trigger a stress response that accelerates physiological deterioration. The objective of the current study is to assess whether neighborhood stressors intensify the health consequences of incarceration exposure.
We test whether two neighborhood context measures – socioeconomic disadvantage and perceived crime – moderate the association between incarceration exposure and a measure of accelerated epigenetic aging based on the GrimAge index. Our sample included 408 African American young adults from the Family and Community Health study.
Results from regression analyses with inverse probability of treatment weights suggest that incarceration exposure and neighborhood disadvantage are independently associated with accelerated biological aging. The results also show that the impact of incarceration exposure on accelerated aging is amplified for individuals in neighborhoods with higher levels of perceived crime.
These findings indicate that the neighborhood contexts where formerly incarcerated individuals return have a substantial impact on their pace of biological aging. Policies aimed at reducing ambient stressors after release may promote healthy aging among formerly incarcerated African American adults.
•The current study used longitudinal data from a Black adult sample.•Physical health was measured using a biomarker of epigenetic aging.•Incarceration and neighborhood disadvantage were associated with accelerated aging.•Perceived neighborhood crime moderated the incarceration-aging association.•Neighborhood stressors exacerbate the health consequences of incarceration.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Incarceration exposure and epigenetic aging in neighborhood context
- Creators
- Mark T. Berg - University of IowaEthan M. Rogers - University of IowaKendall Riley - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAMan-Kit Lei - University of GeorgiaRonald L. Simons - University of Georgia
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social science & medicine (1982), Vol.310, 115273
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115273
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
- eISSN
- 1873-5347
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000030, name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, award: 1 R49 CE003095-01; DOI: 10.13039/100000049, name: National Institute on Aging, award: R01 AG055393, RF 1AG077386; DOI: 10.13039/100000050, name: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, award: R01 HL118045; DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health; DOI: 10.13039/100000054, name: National Cancer Institute, award: R01 CA220254; DOI: 10.13039/100000071, name: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, award: R01 HD080749; DOI: 10.13039/100000026, name: National Institute on Drug Abuse, award: R21 DA034457; DOI: 10.13039/100000025, name: National Institute of Mental Health, award: R01 MH62699
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 08/19/2022
- Date published
- 10/2022
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984285560302771
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