Neighborhood built environment, psychosocial stressors, and telomere length of birth parents and their newborns from San Francisco, California

Telomere length at birth predicts relative telomere length in adulthood, suggesting much of the link between telomere length and longevity is established early in life. While neighborhood environments have been linked with shorter telomeres in adulthood, few prior studies have assessed newborn telomere length or joint associations with psychosocial stressors. In a diverse birth cohort, we show that the mixture of neighborhood lack of greenness, traffic, and noise, coupled with individual-level poor perceptions of neighborhood quality, stress, and depression is associated with decreased telomere length among newborns, with slightly stronger effects among immigrants and college-educated birth parents.

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Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
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2025-08-08
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-025-00797-9
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Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
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Neighborhood built environment, psychosocial stressors, and telomere length of birth parents and their newborns from San Francisco, California

Ana Carla Guimarães, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez, Stephanie Marie Eick, Tracey J. Woodruff et al.
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Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
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Neighborhood built environment, psychosocial stressors, and telomere length of birth parents and their newborns from San Francisco, California

Ana Carla Guimarães, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez, Stephanie Marie Eick, Tracey J. Woodruff, Erin DeMicco, Rachel A. Morello-Frosch, Nicholas Depsky, Jue Lin, Lara Cushing
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Abstract

Telomere length at birth predicts relative telomere length in adulthood, suggesting much of the link between telomere length and longevity is established early in life. While neighborhood environments have been linked with shorter telomeres in adulthood, few prior studies have assessed newborn telomere length or joint associations with psychosocial stressors. In a diverse birth cohort, we show that the mixture of neighborhood lack of greenness, traffic, and noise, coupled with individual-level poor perceptions of neighborhood quality, stress, and depression is associated with decreased telomere length among newborns, with slightly stronger effects among immigrants and college-educated birth parents.

Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental EpidemiologyVol. 36(2)
Emory University (US), University of California, Los Angeles (US), University of California, San Francisco (US), UCLA Health (US), San Francisco State University (US), University of California, Berkeley (US)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health
Sustainable cities and communities
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Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
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Neighborhood built environment, psychosocial stressors, and telomere length of birth parents and their newborns from San Francisco, California — Ana Carla Guimarães, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez, et al. · Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS