Publications by authors named "Veronica Passarelli"
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- Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage can lead to negative health outcomes, but factors promoting resilience, like neighborhood belonging, may help.
- A study with 245 adolescents explored how neighborhood belonging influences the link between socioeconomic disadvantage and low-grade inflammation, a marker for chronic diseases.
- Results showed that strong neighborhood belonging reduces the negative health impact of socioeconomic disadvantage, indicating that social connections are crucial for youth health resilience.
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- Ambient exposure to fine particulate matter (PM) is linked to increased health risks, raising the question of how PM sensitizes the immune response in children.
- A study involving 277 children investigated the effects of neighborhood PM on inflammatory responses, revealing that higher PM levels correlate with stronger cytokine reactions, particularly from vehicle emissions and dust.
- Longitudinal findings indicated that residential PM exposure decreased sensitivity to anti-inflammatory agents, but PM levels did not appear to affect biomarkers of low-grade inflammation.
Youth exposed to chronic stress exhibit increased cardiometabolic risk which parental social support may attenuate. Notably, theories emphasize that support should be delivered responsively for it to exert buffering effects, but this has not been thoroughly tested empirically. This study examined whether timing of support is an important but unrecognized element of responsiveness during adolescence in buffering the link between chronic stress and cardiometabolic risk.
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