Intergenerational social mobility and allostatic load in mid-life and older ages; a diagonal reference modelling approach.

Findings provide evidence for an accumulation model of social inequalities in which disparities in health are diluted rather than increased by social mobility (i.e., gradient constraint), with the socially mobile having an AL score that is intermediate between their origin class and destination class. This implies that the effects of origin SEP on health are not immutable, but are instead responsive to changing socio-economic circumstances across the life course.