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Sociodemographic, behavioral and genetic determinants of allostatic load in a Swiss population-based study

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Title
Sociodemographic, behavioral and genetic determinants of allostatic load in a Swiss population-based study
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Psychoneuroendocrinology, February 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.02.003
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Dusan Petrovic, Edward Pivin, Belen Ponte, Nasser Dhayat, Menno Pruijm, Georg Ehret, Daniel Ackermann, Idris Guessous, Sandrine Estoppey Younes, Antoinette Pechère-Bertschi, Bruno Vogt, Markus Mohaupt, Pierre-Yves Martin, Fred Paccaud, Michel Burnier, Murielle Bochud, Silvia Stringhini

Abstract

Allostatic load (AL) is a marker of physiological dysregulation which reflects exposure to chronic stress. High AL has been related to poorer health outcomes including mortality. We examine here the association of socioeconomic and lifestyle factors with AL. Additionally, we investigate the extent to which AL is genetically determined. We included 803 participants (52% women, mean age 48±16years) from a population and family-based Swiss study. We computed an AL index aggregating 14 markers from cardiovascular, metabolic, lipidic, oxidative, hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal and inflammatory homeostatic axes. Education and occupational position were used as indicators of socioeconomic status. Marital status, stress, alcohol intake, smoking, dietary patterns and physical activity were considered as lifestyle factors. Heritability of AL was estimated by maximum likelihood. Women with a low occupational position had higher AL (low vs. high OR=3.99, 95%CI [1.22;13.05]), while the opposite was observed for men (middle vs. high OR=0.48, 95%CI [0.23;0.99]). Education tended to be inversely associated with AL in both sexes(low vs. high OR=3.54, 95%CI [1.69;7.4]/OR=1.59, 95%CI [0.88;2.90] in women/men). Heavy drinking men as well as women abstaining from alcohol had higher AL than moderate drinkers. Physical activity was protective against AL while high salt intake was related to increased AL risk. The heritability of AL was estimated to be 29.5% ±7.9%. Our results suggest that generalized physiological dysregulation, as measured by AL, is determined by both environmental and genetic factors. The genetic contribution to AL remains modest when compared to the environmental component, which explains approximately 70% of the phenotypic variance.

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Country Count As %
Russia 1 1%
Unknown 94 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 16%
Student > Bachelor 14 15%
Student > Master 13 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 14%
Other 6 6%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 22 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 20%
Psychology 14 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 7%
Social Sciences 7 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Other 15 16%
Unknown 29 31%
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