Abstract
BackgroundCharacteristics associated with low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods may put children at risk for unique chronic stressors that affect cortisol levels. This research sought to explore whether neighbourhood stressor exposure affected...
Highlights
Characteristics associated with low socioeconomic status neighborhoods may put children at risk for unique chronic stressors that affect cortisol levels
Neighborhood disorder was predictive of lower serum cortisol levels among African American children (p
Transition to a higher pubertal status, nested in age was predictive of lower serum cortisol levels (p
Summary
Disentangling the relationship between low community-level SES and cortisol may show that neighborhood characteristics such as physical and social disorder may be the chronic stressors that affect the HPA axis. 3, 6, 13 the aim of this research was to explore neighborhood stressor exposure and the relationship to cortisol
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