Socioeconomic status and immune aging in older US adults in the health and retirement study.

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic and demographic factors including educational attainment, race and ethnicity, and childhood socioeconomic status (SES) are powerful predictors of inequalities in aging, morbidity, and mortality. Immune aging, including accumulation of late-differentiated, senescent-like lymphocytes and lower levels of naïve lymphocytes, may play a role in the development of the age-related health inequalities. This study used nationally representative data from more than 9,000 US adults from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate associations between educational attainment, race and ethnicity, and childhood SES and lymphocyte percentages. Respondents with lower educational attainment, Hispanic adults, and those who had a parent with less than a high school education had lymphocyte per

SUBMITTER: Klopack ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9869898 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature