Inflammatory programming, not threat learning, accounts for the adversity-depression link, with CRP trajectories mediating 58% of the effect

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Serrano-Duff (2021) reported in a 900-person cohort that childhood adversity predicted elevated adult CRP and IL-6, and that inflammatory markers mediated the majority of the adversity-depression association, with cognitive threat measures adding no incremental mediation once inflammation was in the model.

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