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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2024 May 4;162:105697. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105697

Table 1.

Selected articles from the PRISMA scoping review.

Authors Year Type of study Country of origin of the sample Age Group size Allostatic load measurement Hypotheses tested Findings
Gallo, L. C., Roesch, S. C., Bravin, J. I., Savin, K. L., Perreira, K. M., Carnethon, M. R., Delamater, A. M., Salazar, C. R., Lopez-Gurrola, M., & Isasi, C. R. 2020 Cross-sectional

  • Central or South America

  • Cuba

  • Dominican Republic

  • Mexico

  • Puerto Rico

 8–16 1343

  • BMI

  • DBP

  • e-Selectin

  • Fasting glucose

  • HbA1c

  • HDL cholesterol

  • HOMA-IR

  • CRP

  • LDL cholesterol

  • PAI-1

  • Pulse rate

  • SBP

  • Triglycerides

  • Waist circumference

  • Socioeconomic adversity and allostatic load will be associated.

  • Protective social resources will attenuate the association between socioeconomic adversity and allostatic load

  • Social resources and allostatic load will be associated.

  • Higher socioeconomic adversity was associated with higher allostatic load.

  • The association between socioeconomic adversity and allostatic load was not affected by protective social resources.

  • Higher social resources were not associated with lower allostatic load.
Cedillo, Y. E., Murillo, A. L., & Fernandez, J. R. 2019 Cross-sectional

  • African American

  • European American

  • Hispanic American

 9.5

  • 80 Hispanic Americans

  • 120 European Americans

  • 107 African Americans.

  • CRP

  • DBP

  • HDL cholesterol

  • HOMA-IR

  • LDL cholesterol

  • SBP

  • Total cholesterol

  • Triglycerides

  • Allostatic load will differ by race/ethnicity.

  • Allostatic load will be associated with obesity-related measures.

  • Hispanic American children exhibited higher allostatic load than African American and European American counterparts.

  • Higher allostatic load was associated with higher BMI, total body fat mass, body percent fat, and waist circumference.
Arevalo, S., Tucker, K., Falcon, M. 2014 Retrospective Puerto Rico 56.9 984

  • Cortisol

  • CRP

  • DBP

  • DHEA-S

  • Epinephrine

  • HbA1c

  • Norepinephrine

  • SBP

  • Total cholesterol

  • HDL cholesterol

  • Waist circumference

  • Stressful life events will be associated with allostatic load.

  • Language acculturation will be associated with allostatic load and mediated by stressful life events.

  • Migrating during middle childhood and adolescence will be associated with allostatic load, increasing by experiencing stressful live events.

  • Trajectories of low stress were associated with higher allostatic load.

  • Language acculturation was associated with allostatic load.

  • Migration during middle childhood and adolescence was associated with higher allostatic load, which increased when experiencing stressful live events.
Gersten, O., Dow, W. H., & Rosero-Bixby, L. 2010 Retrospective Costa Rica 70.5 2827

  • Cortisol

  • DHEA-S

  • Epinephrine

  • Norepinephrine

 Early childhood conditions will be associated with allostatic load. Allostatic load was independent of early childhood conditions.

BMI: body mass index; CRP: C-reactive protein; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; DHEA-S: dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate; HbA1c: hemoglobin A1C; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; HOMA-IR: homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance; LDL: low-density lipoprotein; PAI-1: plasminogen activator inhibitor-1; SBP: systolic blood pressure.