Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Multi-cohort study identifies social determinants of systemic inflammation over the life course

  • Eloïse Berger,
  • Raphaële Castagné,
  • Marc Chadeau-Hyam,
  • Murielle Bochud,
  • Angelo d’Errico,
  • Martina Gandini,
  • Maryam Karimi,
  • Mika Kivimäki,
  • Vittorio Krogh,
  • Michael Marmot,
  • Salvatore Panico,
  • Martin Preisig,
  • Fulvio Ricceri,
  • Carlotta Sacerdote,
  • Andrew Steptoe,
  • Silvia Stringhini,
  • Rosario Tumino,
  • Paolo Vineis,
  • Cyrille Delpierre,
  • Michelle Kelly-Irving

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08732-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, the authors explore the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) across the life course and inflammation in a multi-cohort study and show that educational attainment is most strongly related to inflammation, suggesting that socioeconomic disadvantage in young adulthood is independently associated with later life inflammation.