The transition to family caregiving and its effect on biomarkers of inflammation.

ABSTRACT: Chronic stress has been widely proposed to increase systemic inflammation, a pathway that may link stress with a heightened risk for many diseases. The chronic stress-inflammation relationship has been challenging to study in humans, however, and family caregiving has been identified as one type of stressful situation that might lead to increased inflammation. Previous studies of caregiving and inflammation have generally used small convenience samples, compared caregivers with poorly characterized control participants, and assessed inflammation only after caregivers provided care for extended periods of time. In the current project, changes over a 9-y period were examined on six circulating biomarkers of inflammation for 480 participants from a large population-based study. All participan

SUBMITTER: Roth DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368336 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature