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ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2017

Explaining the Association between Early Adversity and Young Adults' Diabetes Outcomes: Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Mechanisms.

Kandauda A S Wickrama, Dayoung Bae, Catherine Walker O'Neal

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Article in Journal of youth and adolescence, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. 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 · 2026
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  4. Social bonds do not mediate the relationship between early adversity and adult glucocorticoids in wild baboons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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Kandauda A S WickramaDepartment of Human Development and Family Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Dayoung BaeCenter for Family Research, The University of Georgia, 1095 College Station Road, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. dbae@uga.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2047-9878
Catherine Walker O'NealDepartment of Human Development and Family Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies have documented that early adversity increases young adults' risk for diabetes resulting in morbidity and comorbidity with adverse health conditions. However, less is known about how inter-related physiological (e.g., body mass index [BMI]), psychological (e.g., depressive symptoms), and behavioral mechanisms (e.g., unhealthy eating and sedentary behavior) link early adversity to young adults' diabetes outcomes, although these mechanisms appear to stem from early stressful experiences. The current study tested the patterning of these longitudinal pathways leading to young adults' diabetes using a nationally representative sample of 13,286 adolescents (54% female) over a period of 13 years. The findings indicated that early adversity contributed to elevated BMI, depressive symptoms, and stress-related health behaviors. The impact of these linking mechanisms on hierarchical diabetes outcomes (i.e., prediabetes and diabetes) remained significant after taking their associations with each other into account, showing that these mechanisms operate concurrently. The findings emphasize the importance of early detection for risk factors of young adults' diabetes in order to minimize their detrimental health effects.

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Adolescent DevelopmentAdolescentBehavioral ResearchBody Mass IndexDepressionDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Disease SusceptibilityFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsYoung AdultDiabetesEarly adversityHealth-risk mechanismsYoung adults

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