Contributions of neighborhood social environment and air pollution exposure to Black-White disparities in epigenetic aging (IMAGE)

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Contributions of neighborhood social environment and air pollution exposure to Black-White disparities in epigenetic aging

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Black Americans may face relatively accelerated biological aging because they tend to experience lower socioeconomic status, more neighborhood deprivation and higher air pollution than White Americans.

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Craig Adderley, Pexels, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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