Immigrant status and citizenship relationships with epigenetic aging in a representative sample of United States adults
Our results support the paradigm of the immigrant mortality advantage and highlight the potential value of epigenetic age measures in studying socioeconomic and broader factors influencing citizen and immigrant health.
Authors
- Jamaji C. Nwanaji‐Enwerem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0356-4867)
- Nicole Gladish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6039-7001)
- Belinda L. Needham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5939-2027)
- Saher Daredia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-4087)
- Dennis Khodasevich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1412-8251)
- Andrés Cárdenas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2284-3298)
- Patricia Rodríguez Espinosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7578-305X)
- Hanyang Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3273-9777)
- Anne K. Bozack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-5767)
- David H. Rehkopf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-6513)
Institutions
- University of Michigan (US)
- California University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Center for Health Justice (US)
- Berkeley Public Health Division (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Epigenomics
- Published
- 2025-03-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17501911.2025.2476378
- Primary Topic
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities