ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2017
Childhood Maltreatment and BMI Trajectory: The Mediating Role of Depression.
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- Using latent class analysis to empirically classify maltreatment according to the developmental timing, duration, and co-occurrence of abuse types.Child abuse & neglect · 2020Article
- Effect of race on the relationship between child maltreatment and obesity in Whites and Blacks.Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Article
- Not the Root of the Problem-Hair Cortisol and Cortisone Do Not Mediate the Effect of Child Maltreatment on Body Mass Index.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Association of Childhood Abuse with Incident Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Adulthood in a Longitudinal Cohort of Women.The Journal of rheumatology · 2019Article
- Describing associations between child maltreatment frequency and the frequency and timing of subsequent delinquent or criminal behaviors across development: variation by sex, sexual orientation, and race.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Maltreatment experience in childhood and average excess body mass from adolescence to young adulthood.Child abuse & neglect · 2019Article
- Disrupting the link between maltreatment and delinquency: how school, family, and community factors can be protective.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Child Maltreatment and Body Mass Index over Time: The Roles of Social Support and Stress Responses.Children and youth services review · 2019Article
- Childhood psychosocial challenges and risk for obesity in U.S. men and women.Translational psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionChildhood maltreatment is associated with later obesity, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. The objective of this study was to estimate the extent to which depression mediates the associations between childhood maltreatment and BMI in adolescence through adulthood.
methodsData on a cohort of 13,362 adolescents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Wave I [1994-1995] to Wave IV [2008-2009]) were analyzed in 2015-2016. Classes of maltreatment experienced prior to age 12 years were statistically identified using latent class analysis. Gender-stratified latent growth curve analysis was used to estimate total effects of maltreatment classes on latent BMI trajectory (aged 13-31 years) and indirect effects of maltreatment classes that occurred through latent depression trajectory (aged 12-31 years).
resultsFour latent maltreatment classes were identified: high abuse and neglect; physical abuse dominant; supervisory neglect dominant; and no/low maltreatment. In girls, compared with no/low maltreatment, supervisory neglect dominant (coefficient=0.3, 95% CI=0.0, 0.7) and physical abuse dominant (coefficient=0.6, 95% CI=0.1, 1.2) maltreatment were associated with faster gain in BMI. Change in depression over time fully mediated the association of BMI slope with physical abuse dominant maltreatment, but not with supervisory neglect dominant maltreatment. In boys, high abuse and neglect maltreatment was associated with marginally greater BMI at baseline (coefficient=0.7, 95% CI= -0.1, 1.5); this association was not mediated by depression.
conclusionsAlthough maltreatment was associated with depression and BMI trajectories from adolescence to adulthood, depression only mediated associations with physical abuse dominant maltreatment in girls.
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