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Metabolic profiles of socio-economic position: a multi-cohort analysis

Robinson, O; Carter, AR; Ala-Korpela, M; Casas, JP; Chaturvedi, N; Engmann, J; Howe, LD; ... Vineis, P; + view all (2020) Metabolic profiles of socio-economic position: a multi-cohort analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology 10.1093/ije/dyaa188. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Background: Low socio-economic position (SEP) is a risk factor for multiple health outcomes, but its molecular imprints in the body remain unclear. Methods: We examined SEP as a determinant of serum nuclear magnetic resonance metabolic profiles in 30 000 adults and 4000 children across 10 UK and Finnish cohort studies. Results: In risk-factor-adjusted analysis of 233 metabolic measures, low educational attainment was associated with 37 measures including higher levels of triglycerides in small high-density lipoproteins (HDL) and lower levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), omega-3 fatty acids, apolipoprotein A1, large and very large HDL particles (including levels of their respective lipid constituents) and cholesterol measures across different density lipoproteins. Among adults whose father worked in manual occupations, associations with apolipoprotein A1, large and very large HDL particles and HDL-2 cholesterol remained after adjustment for SEP in later life. Among manual workers, levels of glutamine were higher compared with non-manual workers. All three indicators of low SEP were associated with lower DHA, omega-3 fatty acids and HDL diameter. At all ages, children of manual workers had lower levels of DHA as a proportion of total fatty acids. Conclusions: Our work indicates that social and economic factors have a measurable impact on human physiology. Lower SEP was independently associated with a generally unfavourable metabolic profile, consistent across ages and cohorts. The metabolites we found to be associated with SEP, including DHA, are known to predict cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline in later life and may contribute to health inequalities.

Type: Article
Title: Metabolic profiles of socio-economic position: a multi-cohort analysis
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyaa188
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa188
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Socio-economic status, education, occupation, metabolomics, life course, metabonomic, lipoproteins
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10115905
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