Elevated inflammatory biomarkers during unemployment: modification by age and country in the UK.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:There is raised risk of mortality following unemployment, and reviews have consistently found worse psychological health among the unemployed. Inflammation is increasingly implicated as a mediating factor relating stress to physical disease and is strongly linked to depression. Inflammation may, therefore, be implicated in processes associated with excess mortality and morbidity during unemployment. This study examined associations of unemployment with inflammatory markers among working-age men and women from England and Scotland. METHODS:Cross-sectional analyses using data from the Health Survey for England and the Scottish Health Survey collected between 1998 and 2010. Systemic inflammation was indexed by serum concentrations of C reactive protein (CRP) and fibrinogen, and com

SUBMITTER: Hughes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4483793 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature