Psychosocial stress and C-reactive protein from mid-adolescence to young adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most prevalent chronic conditions and leading causes of death. Although CVD clinically manifests in adulthood, underlying processes of CVD begin in the earlier decades of life. Inflammation has been shown to play a key role, but relatively little is understood about how inflammation changes over time among young individuals. Additionally, how psychosocial factors like stress may influence changes in inflammation earlier in the lifespan is not entirely clear. Thus, the current three-wave longitudinal study examined the developmental trajectory of CRP, a marker of systemic inflammation, over a 4-year period from mid-adolescence into young adulthood. Between- and within-person differences in stress in relation to changes in CRP were

SUBMITTER: Chiang JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6697172 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature