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Early Psychosocial Exposures, Hair Cortisol Levels, and Disease Risk
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- Karlén, Jerker (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för samhällsmedicin,Medicinska fakulteten
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- Ludvigsson, Johnny (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för kliniska vetenskaper,Medicinska fakulteten,Region Östergötland, Barn- och ungdomskliniken i Linköping
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- Hedmark, Max (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för samhällsmedicin,Medicinska fakulteten
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- Olsen Faresjö, Åshild (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för samhällsmedicin,Medicinska fakulteten
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- Theodorsson, Elvar (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för mikrobiologi och molekylär medicin,Medicinska fakulteten,Region Östergötland, Klinisk kemi
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- Faresjö, Tomas (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för samhällsmedicin,Medicinska fakulteten
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- 2015-06-01
- 2015
- English.
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In: Pediatrics. - : American Academy of Pediatrics. - 0031-4005 .- 1098-4275. ; 135:6, s. E1450-E1457
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- BACKGROUND: Early psychosocial exposures are increasingly recognized as being crucial to health throughout life. A possible mechanism could be physiologic dysregulation due to stress. Cortisol in hair is a new biomarker assessing long-term hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity. The objective was to investigate whether early-life adverse psychosocial circumstances influence infant cortisol levels in hair and health outcomes in children prospectively until age 10. METHODS: A cohort study in the general community using a questionnaire covering 11 psychosocial items in the family during pregnancy and the cumulative incidence of diagnoses until age 10 years in 1876 children. Cortisol levels in hair were measured by using a radioimmunoassay in those with sufficient hair samples at age 1, yielding a subsample of n = 209. RESULTS: Children with added psychosocial exposures had higher infant cortisol levels in hair (B = 0.40, P less than .0001, adjusted for gender and size for gestational age) in a cumulative manner and were significantly more often affected by 12 of the 14 most common childhood diseases, with a general pattern of increasing odds ratios. CONCLUSIONS: The findings support the model of physiologic dysregulation as a plausible mechanism by which the duration and number of early detrimental psychosocial exposures determine health outcomes. The model indicates that the multiplicity of adversities should be targeted in future interventions and could help to identify children who are at high risk of poor health. Furthermore, given the prolonged nature of exposure to a stressful social environment, the novel biomarker of cortisol in hair could be of major importance.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Occupational Health and Environmental Health (hsv//eng)
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