ArticlePublic health nutrition2021
Adverse childhood experiences and obesity over time.
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- Adverse Experiences, Protective Factors, and Obesity in Latinx and Hispanic Youths.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Restoring a Healthy Relationship with Food by Decoupling Stress and Eating: A Translational Review of Nutrition and Mental Health.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Childhood maltreatment, adulthood obesity and incident type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study using UK Biobank.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk of Abnormal Body Mass Index: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Childhood maltreatment and trajectories of cardiometabolic health across the reproductive life span among individuals with a first birth during the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.Preventive medicine · 2024Article
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- BMI moderates the association between adverse childhood experiences and COPD.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) on children and adolescents' health status such as obesity are understudied. The current study addressed the effect of ACE on obesity status during childhood utilising multiple waves of national panel data.
designLongitudinal survey.
settingData were drawn from three waves of the second cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW II). NSCAW II study sampled cases from Child Protective Services investigations that were closed between February 2008 and April 2009 nationwide. We measured ACE cumulatively and as separate events and stratified by gender.
participantsTotally, 3170 youth births to 14 years of age at baseline.
resultsA count measure of ACE is indeed associated with greater odds of obesity during childhood. Differential effects for different types of ACE were also found, most notably neglect. For girls, physical and psychological neglect increased odds of obesity.
conclusionsFindings support evidence for the importance of using both a count measure of ACE as well as separating out single events by gender.
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