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@article{Vineis:2020:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00118,
author = {Vineis, P and Avendano-Pabon, M and Barros, H and Bartley, M and Carmeli, C and Carra, L and Chadeau-Hyam, M and Costa, G and Delpierre, C and D'Errico, A and Fraga, S and Giles, G and Goldberg, M and Kelly-Irving, M and Kivimaki, M and Lepage, B and Lang, T and Layte, R and MacGuire, F and Mackenbach, JP and Marmot, M and McCrory, C and Milne, RL and Muennig, P and Nusselder, W and Petrovic, D and Polidoro, S and Ricceri, F and Robinson, O and Stringhini, S and Zins, M},
doi = {10.3389/fpubh.2020.00118},
journal = {Frontiers in Public Health},
pages = {1--37},
title = {Special report: the biology of inequalities in health: the lifepath consortium},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00118},
volume = {8},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - Funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, the Lifepath research consortium aimed to investigate the effects of socioeconomic inequalities on the biology of healthy aging. The main research questions included the impact of inequalities on health, the role of behavioral and other risk factors, the underlying biological mechanisms, the efficacy of selected policies, and the general implications of our findings for theories and policies. The project adopted a life-course and comparative approach, considering lifetime effects from childhood and adulthood, and pooled data on up to 1.7 million participants of longitudinal cohort studies from Europe, USA, and Australia. These data showed that socioeconomic circumstances predicted mortality and functional decline as strongly as established risk factors currently targeted by global prevention programmes. Analyses also looked at socioeconomically patterned biological markers, allostatic load, and DNA methylation using richly phenotyped cohorts, unraveling their association with aging processes across the life-course. Lifepath studies suggest that socioeconomic circumstances are embedded in our biology from the outset—i.e., disadvantage influences biological systems from molecules to organs. Our findings have important implications for policy, suggesting that (a) intervening on unfavorable socioeconomic conditions is complementary and as important as targeting well-known risk factors, such as tobacco and alcohol consumption, low fruit and vegetable intake, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, and that (b) effects of preventive interventions in early life integrate interventions in adulthood. The report has an executive summary that refers to the different sections of the main paper.
AU  - Vineis,P
AU  - Avendano-Pabon,M
AU  - Barros,H
AU  - Bartley,M
AU  - Carmeli,C
AU  - Carra,L
AU  - Chadeau-Hyam,M
AU  - Costa,G
AU  - Delpierre,C
AU  - D'Errico,A
AU  - Fraga,S
AU  - Giles,G
AU  - Goldberg,M
AU  - Kelly-Irving,M
AU  - Kivimaki,M
AU  - Lepage,B
AU  - Lang,T
AU  - Layte,R
AU  - MacGuire,F
AU  - Mackenbach,JP
AU  - Marmot,M
AU  - McCrory,C
AU  - Milne,RL
AU  - Muennig,P
AU  - Nusselder,W
AU  - Petrovic,D
AU  - Polidoro,S
AU  - Ricceri,F
AU  - Robinson,O
AU  - Stringhini,S
AU  - Zins,M
DO  - 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00118
EP  - 37
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 2296-2565
SP  - 1
TI  - Special report: the biology of inequalities in health: the lifepath consortium
T2  - Frontiers in Public Health
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00118
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000537221400001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00118/full
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/80202
VL  - 8
ER  -

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