Cold parenting is associated with cellular aging in offspring: A retrospective study
| Autor: | Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes, Gary E. Fraser, Raymond Knutsen, Jan Irene Lloren, Valery Filippov, D. Juma, S. F. Knutsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Parents Offspring media_common.quotation_subject Mothers Overweight Article 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Humans Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Obesity Risk factor Cellular Senescence Retrospective Studies media_common Parenting business.industry General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Stressor Retrospective cohort study Telomere Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Cellular Aging Biomarker (medicine) Female Psychological resilience medicine.symptom business Stress Psychological 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Biol Psychol |
| ISSN: | 0301-0511 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.03.013 |
| Popis: | Background Early life stress is a known risk factor for diseases and premature death. We tested whether parenting style impacts telomere length (TL), a cellular aging biomarker. Methods Information on parents’ style of parenting was obtained from 199 participants in the Adventist Health Study-1 (AHS-1) who 27+ years later also enrolled in the AHS-2 where blood was collected for relative TL (rTL) assessment. Results Subjects describing their mothers’ parenting style as cold had on average 25% smaller rTL compared to subjects not reporting a cold mother (1.89 vs 2.53). This association was greatest among those with less education, and those who stayed overweight/obese or put on weight during follow-up. Conclusions These results support previous findings that early life stress may have health implications by promoting cellular aging, and expands these stressors to include cold parenting during an individuals’ formative years. Higher education and normal weight seem to provide some resilience. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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