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Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Host Resistance to Infectious Illness in Adulthood

Sheldon Cohen, PhD, William J. Doyle, PhD, Ronald B. Turner, MD, Cuneyt M. Alper, MD and David P. Skoner, MD

From the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (S.C.); University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (W.J.D., C.M.A.); University of Virginia Health Sciences Center (R.T.) Department of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Allegheny General Hospital (D.P.S.).



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  		Figure 1. Adjusted effect size (regression coefficient) for the associations between parental home ownership and adult susceptibility to colds at different ages (2-year ranges) during childhood and adolescence.

 


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  		Figure 2. Adjusted (for standard controls) incidences of infection (a) and clinical illness among infected volunteers (b) as a function of years of parental home ownership (tertiled) when the subjects were aged 0 to 18 years.

 




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