ArticleInternational journal of obesity (2005)2022
Adverse childhood experiences, child poverty, and adiposity trajectories from childhood to adolescence: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study.
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- The adipose tissue keeps the score: priming of the adrenal-adipose tissue axis by early life stress predisposes women to obesity and cardiometabolic risk.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- FTO and MC4R polymorphisms, and selected pre-, peri- and postnatal factors as determinants of body mass index and fatness in children: a thorough analysis of the associations.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2023Article
- Early childhood adversity and body mass index in childhood and adolescence: linking registry data on adversities with school health records of 53,401 children from Copenhagen.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Article
- Role of body mass index in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, resilience, and mental health: a multivariate analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Predictors of change in poor mental health and obesity (including overweight) comorbidity in mid-adolescence: A longitudinal analysis using the millennium cohort study.Journal of multimorbidity and comorbidityArticle
- Adverse childhood experiences and mental ill-health - obesity comorbidity among British adolescents - A national cohort study.Journal of multimorbidity and comorbidityArticle
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objectiveThis study investigated associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood (at ages 9 months and 3 years) and adiposity trajectories of children/adolescents from age 5 to age 17, and the potential interaction between ACEs and poverty on adiposity trajectories.
methodsData from the UK Millennium Cohort Study was used. Eight commonly studied ACEs and poverty were measured when the child was aged 9 months and 3 years. ACEs were considered as a cumulative score and as individual experiences. Linear-mixed effect models were employed, modelling BMI and fat mass index (FMI) trajectories from age 5 to 17 (main outcome), adjusting for covariates and stratified by sex. Interactions with poverty were also tested. The sample sizes were 7282 and 6912 for BMI and FMI sample respectively.
resultsCumulative ACE score was associated with steeper increase in BMI and FMI among boys with 3+ ACEs (BMI: β = 0.13, 95% CI: 0.02-0.24; FMI: β = 0.09, 95% CI: 0.01-0.19). For individual ACEs, parental depression was associated with steeper increase in BMI/FMI trajectories in both sexes (BMI: boys: β = 0.15, 95% CI: 0.07-0.23, girls: β = 0.13, 95% CI: 0.05-0.20; FMI: boys: β = 0.09, 95% CI: 0.03-0.15, girls: β = 0.09, 95% CI: 0.02-0.16). In addition, parental separation and physical punishment were associated with steeper increase in BMI/FMI trajectories among girls (BMI: parental separation: β = 0.25; 95% CI: 0.06-0.44, physical punishment: β = 0.14; 95% CI: 0.03-0.26; FMI: parental separation: β = 0.20; 95% CI: 0.03-0.37, physical punishment: β = 0.12; 95% CI: 0.02-0.22). No interaction effect had been found between ACEs and poverty on the adiposity trajectories.
conclusionsA complex relationship between ACEs in early childhood and adiposity trajectories for children/adolescents was found, highlighting the different effects of specific ACEs and sex differences in the association.
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