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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2020

Association of Childhood Psychosocial Environment With 30-Year Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and Mortality in Middle Age.

Jacob B Pierce, Kiarri N Kershaw, Catarina I Kiefe, David R Jacobs, Stephen Sidney, Sharon Stein Merkin, Joe Feinglass

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Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Jacob B PierceNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago IL.
Kiarri N KershawDivision of Preventive Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago IL.
Catarina I KiefeDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester MA.
David R JacobsDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health School of Public Health University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN.
Stephen SidneyDivision of Research Kaiser Permanente Oakland CA.
Sharon Stein MerkinDivision of Geriatrics Los Angeles Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles CA.
Joe FeinglassDivision of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago IL.
Northwestern University · USKaiser Permanente · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background Childhood adversity and trauma have been shown to be associated with poorer cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes in adulthood. However, longitudinal studies of this association are rare. Methods and Results Our study used the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) Study, a longitudinal cohort that has followed participants from recruitment in 1985-1986 through 2018, to determine how childhood psychosocial environment relates to CVD incidence and all-cause mortality in middle age. Participants (n=3646) completed the Childhood Family Environment (CFE) questionnaire at the year 15 (2000-2001) CARDIA examination and were grouped by high, moderate, or low relative CFE adversity scores. We used sequential multivariable regression models to estimate hazard ratios of incident (CVD) and all-cause mortality. Participants were 25.1±3.6 years old, 47% black, and 56% female at baseline and 198 participants developed CVD (17.9 per 10 000 person-years) during follow-up. CVD incidence was >50% higher for those in the high CFE adversity group compared with those in the low CFE adversity group. In fully adjusted models, CVD hazard ratios (95% CI) for participants who reported high and moderate CFE adversity versus those reporting low CFE adversity were 1.40 (0.98-2.11) and 1.25 (0.89-1.75), respectively. The adjusted hazard ratios for all-cause mortality was 1.68 (1.17-2.41) for those with high CFE adversity scores and 1.55 (1.11-2.17) for those with moderate CFE adversity scores. Conclusions Adverse CFE was associated with CVD incidence and all-cause mortality later in life, even after controlling for CVD risk factors in young adulthood.

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Adverse Childhood ExperiencesEnvironmentAdolescentAdultAge FactorsCardiovascular DiseasesFemaleHeart Disease Risk FactorsHumansIncidenceLongitudinal StudiesMaleRisk AssessmentSocial Determinants of HealthSocioeconomic FactorsStress, Psychologicaladverse childhood experiencescardiovascular eventslifetime risklongitudinal cohort studymortalitystress

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PMID32342717
PMCPMC7428574
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