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Psychosocial Context and the Biological Clock: Changes in Weathering during Middle-Age

Description: PROJECT NARRATIVE Improving the quality of longer lives requires better specified models of healthy aging. Our objective is to identify the stressors that accelerate as well as the supports that decelerate the rate of biological aging. Such information is essential for developing public health interventions.
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Investigator: RONALD L SIMONS
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Funded outputs count: 53
Funder award ID: R01AG055393
OpenAlex ID: G545324259
Mastery moderates the association between cumulative socioeconomic status risk and accelerated biological aging among middle-aged Black American women
2026 · Rachael D Weaver, Katelyn N Austin, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B
Self-Esteem, Racial Identity, and Depression in the Long-Term Impact of Discrimination on Health among Black Americans
2026 · Cerenity E. Collins, Man-Kit Lei, et al. · Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Racial discrimination accelerates age-related increases in serum neurofilament light chain among African American women: examination of change from midlife to older adulthood
2026 · Man-Kit Lei, Rachael D Weaver, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B
Beyond the Strong Black Woman: the Protective Role of Black Identity Centrality against Depression in Young Black Women
2026 · Dereika Pinder, Man-Kit Lei · Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities · 1
Associations of Longitudinal Changes in Blood Biomarkers of Dementia With the Proportion of Genetically Inferred African Ancestry
2025 · Lu Wang, Huifang Xu, et al. · Neurology · 1
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Diabetes and Hypertension at Midlife Predict Increases in Biomarkers of Dementia Among Black Americans
2025 · Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, et al. · Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities · 1
Biological aging and its association with serum neurofilament light chain levels in middle-aged African Americans: a prospective observational study
2025 · Man-Kit Lei, Mei Ling Ong, et al. · Aging advances. · 1
Cumulative Socioeconomic Status Risk is Associated With Greater Increase in Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Levels Among Middle-Aged Black Adults
2024 · Man-Kit Lei, Steven R H Beach, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series A · 7
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Racial discrimination predicts subjective cognitive decline: Perceived relationship support buffers the association
2024 · Man-Kit Lei, Stephanie L. Hanus, et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 7
Incarceration Exposure, Biological Aging, and Depression Symptoms in an African American Sample of Older Adults
2024 · Mark T. Berg, Kendall Riley, et al. · Journal of Aging and Health · 7
Racial discrimination during middle age predicts higher serum phosphorylated tau and neurofilament light chain levels a decade later: A study of aging black Americans
2024 · Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, et al. · Alzheimer s & Dementia · 17
Racism Over Time: Experiences from a Panel Study of Black Americans
2023 · Malissa Alinor, Ronald L. Simons, et al. · Social Psychology Quarterly · 18
Changes in Loneliness, BDNF, and Biological Aging Predict Trajectories in a Blood-Based Epigenetic Measure of Cortical Aging: A Study of Older Black Americans
2023 · Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, et al. · Genes · 8
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Specifying the psychosocial pathways whereby child and adolescent adversity shape adult health outcomes
2022 · Man-Kit Lei, Mark T. Berg, et al. · Psychological Medicine · 10
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Do Loneliness and Per Capita Income Combine to Increase the Pace of Biological Aging for Black Adults across Late Middle Age?
2022 · Steven R. H. Beach, Eric T. Klopack, et al. · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 17
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Racial discrimination predicts depressive symptoms throughout adolescence among Black youth.
2022 · Justin A. Lavner, Mei Ling Ong, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 21
Incarceration exposure and epigenetic aging in neighborhood context
2022 · Mark T. Berg, Ethan M. Rogers, et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 22
Digital methylation assessments of alcohol and cigarette consumption account for common variance in accelerated epigenetic ageing
2022 · Man-Kit Lei, Frederick X. Gibbons, et al. · Epigenetics · 17
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Shifts in lifestyle and socioeconomic circumstances predict change—for better or worse—in speed of epigenetic aging: A study of middle-aged black women
2022 · Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 32
Additive and Interactive Genetically Contextual Effects of HbA1c on cg19693031 Methylation in Type 2 Diabetes
2022 · Kelsey Dawes, Willem Philibert, et al. · Genes · 10
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Racial discrimination and health among two generations of African American couples
2022 · Ashley B. Barr, Ronald L. Simons, et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 8
Childhood adversity predicts black young adults’ DNA methylation-based accelerated aging: A dual pathway model
2021 · Steven R. H. Beach, Frederick X. Gibbons, et al. · Development and Psychopathology · 18
Neighborhood structural disadvantage and biological aging in a sample of Black middle age and young adults
2021 · Man-Kit Lei, Mark T. Berg, et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 36
The Impact of Harsh Parenting on the Development of Obesity in Adulthood: An Examination of Epigenetic/Gene Expression Mediators Among African American Youth
2021 · Man-Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach, et al. · Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine · 2
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Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults
2021 · Mark T. Berg, Ethan M. Rogers, et al. · Journal of Health and Social Behavior · 65
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