ArticleChild abuse & neglect2014
Child maltreatment and blood pressure in young adulthood.
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- Dimensions of early life adversity and cardiometabolic health in adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Pooled it
- Sexual violence and cardiovascular disease risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Maturitas · 2021Pooled it
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Blood Pressure in Women in the United States: A Systematic Review.Journal of midwifery & women's health · 2021Pooled it
- The buffering effect of social support on the link between biologically embedded childhood maltreatment and adult cardiovascular disease.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Lifetime Exposure to Violence and Early Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in a Healthy Swedish Cohort.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Associations of adverse childhood experiences with blood pressure among early adolescents in the United States.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2024Article
- Adverse childhood experiences are associated with vascular changes in adolescents that are risk factors for future cardiovascular disease.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Article
- Investigating effect modification between childhood maltreatment and genetic risk for cardiovascular disease in the UK Biobank.PloS one · 2023Article
- Childhood adversity and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood in the 1958 British birth cohort.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Abuse in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Health in Early Adulthood: Evidence From the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Article
- Timing, duration, and differential susceptibility to early life adversities and cardiovascular disease risk across the lifespan: Implications for future research.Preventive medicine · 2021Review
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- Childhood Maltreatment and Health Impact: The Examples of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2017Article
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Abstract
Adverse childhood experiences are associated with hypertension in older adults. This study assessed whether an association between child maltreatment and blood pressure is detectable in young adults and whether any association differs by sex or is modified by genetic polymorphisms known to be involved in stress sensitivity. We examined these patterns in a sample of 12,420 young adults ages 24-32 years who participated in Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Participants retrospectively reported history of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse before age 18 years. Participants with a systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≥140 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ≥90 mmHg were classified as hypertensive. We used sex-stratified linear and logistic regression models to assess associations between each type of childhood maltreatment and SBP, DBP, and hypertension. We created interaction terms to assess for effect modification of any relationship between maltreatment and blood pressure by sex or SLC64A genotype. Fifteen percent of females and 31.5% of males were hypertensive. Frequent physical abuse in childhood was reported by 5%, frequent emotional abuse by 12%, and any sexual abuse by 5%. No association was observed between abuse history and blood pressure in either males or females, nor was effect modification present by SLC64A genotype. Child maltreatment exposure was not associated with blood pressure or hypertension in young adults in this study. Future studies should investigate additional critical windows for the effect of child maltreatment on cardiovascular health.
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