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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

07.05.23 | PLOS

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Contributions of neighborhood social environment and air pollution exposure to Black-White disparities in epigenetic aging
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. Credit: Craig Adderley, Pexels, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0287112

Contributions of neighborhood social environment and air pollution exposure to Black-White disparities in epigenetic aging

5-Jul-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Air Pollution Epigenetics Human Health Public Health Senescence Social Discrimination Social Research Social Sciences Social Studies Of Science Socioeconomics

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0287112
Article Publication Date
2023-07-05
Article Title
Contributions of neighborhood social environment and air pollution exposure to Black-White disparities in epigenetic aging
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, July 5). 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. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOGVJ2L/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.html
MLA:
"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." Brightsurf News, Jul. 5 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOGVJ2L/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.html.