Joaquín Migeot, Carolina Panesso, Claudia Duran-Aniotz, Cristian Avíla-Rincón, Carolina Ochoa, David Huepe, Hernando Santamaría-García, J Jaime Miranda, María Josefina Escobar, Stefanie Pina-Escudero, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Brian Lawlor, Agustín Ibáñez, Sebastián Lipina
The lifespan is influenced by adverse childhood experiences that create predispositions to poor health outcomes. Here we propose an allostatic framework of childhood experiences and their impact on health across the lifespan, focusing on Latin American and Caribbean countries. This region is marked by significant social and health inequalities nested in environmental and social stressors, such as exposure to pollution, violence, and nutritional deficiencies, which critically influence current and later-life health outcomes...
May 4, 2024: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews