ArticleChild abuse & neglect2018
Associations of adversity in childhood and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in mid-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
- Childhood Risk Factors and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- The association of child maltreatment and systemic inflammation in adulthood: A systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Lifetime Exposure to Violence and Early Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in a Healthy Swedish Cohort.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Exposure to abuse and changes in cardiometabolic risk profiles over 3 years in young South African women.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Early life adversity increases risk for chronic post-traumatic pain, data from humans and rodents.Pain · 2025Article
- Sex-specific effects of early-life adversity on adult fitness in a wild mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Estimating the associations between women's maltreatment in childhood and inflammatory biomarker levels prior to and during pregnancy.PloS one · 2025Article
- The association between adverse childhood experiences and adult cardiac function in the UK Biobank.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2024Article
- Early-life circumstances and late life loneliness trajectories among Finnish older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Childhood migration experience and adult health: evidence from China's rural migrants.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Childhood maltreatment and health in the UK Biobank: triangulation of outcome-wide and polygenic risk score analyses.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Influencing factors for the implementation of school-based interventions promoting obesity prevention behaviors in children with low socioeconomic status: a systematic review.Implementation science communications · 2024Review
- Association of adverse childhood experiences with lipid profiles and atherogenic risk indices in a middle-to-older aged population.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Cognitive variations following exposure to childhood adversity: Evidence from a pre-registered, longitudinal study.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Childhood environments and their relationship with sleep and ambulatory blood pressure in college students.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2023Article
- Associations of childhood maltreatment with hypertension in South African women: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Sex Differences in the Relationship Between Child Maltreatment, Recent Bereavement, and Average Heart Rate.Omega · 2021Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and incident coronary heart disease: a counterfactual analysis in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Studies assessing associations of childhood psychosocial adversity (e.g. sexual abuse, physical neglect, parental death), as opposed to socioeconomic adversity, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in adulthood are scarce. The aim of this study is to assess associations of various types of psychosocial adversity and cumulative adversity in childhood, with multiple CVD risk factors in mid-life. At study enrolment, women from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N=3612) retrospectively reported: lack of maternal care, maternal overprotection, parental mental illness, household dysfunction, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, and neglect in childhood. Approximately 23 years later, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, plasma glucose, insulin, triglycerides, low and high density lipoprotein cholesterol, C-reactive protein, carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and arterial distensibility were assessed (mean age 51 years). We examined associations of each specific type of psychosocial adversity and cumulative adversity with CVD risk factors. No specific type of psychosocial adversity was consistently associated with the CVD risk factors. There was evidence that a one standard deviation greater cumulative psychosocial adversity was associated with 0.51cm greater waist circumference (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.02cm, 1.00cm, p=0.04) and a lower arterial distensibility, even after adjustment for age, ethnicity and childhood and adult socioeconomic position. We found no consistent evidence that any specific type of psychosocial adversity, or cumulative psychosocial adversity in childhood, is associated with CVD risk factors in adult women.
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